WO2004028159A1 - Adaptive expanded information capacity for television communications systems - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to systems and methods for simultaneously transmitting television signals and digital signals, and in particular, to systems and methods for providing appropriate compensation and correction when modulating digital signals onto television signals so that the digital signals are substantially orthogonal to the television signals and essentially undetectable and not displayed by consumer grade television receivers.
- the current options to cover this "last mile" include telephone plant in the form of twisted pair or DSL, cable television connections to a special modem, satellite links, electrical power lines, and local over-the-air interfaces such as MMDS and LMDS.
- Each of these options presents its own issues, whether in the form of cost, limited bandwidth, excessive noise, constraints imposed by volume of on-line activity, insufficient switching/routing capacity, and transmission interference.
- That constraint may have partially hidden slower development and installation of sufficient network switching and routing capacity to accommodate the demand that will be imposed when users have the "last mile" connectivity and equipment necessary to realize on their desire for video, audio and other rich media content.
- Various embodiments of the present invention exploit at least two significant advantages over the conventional infrastructure. First, they present an alternative to the phone, cable, power line, satellite, and local wireless interfaces. (In addition, the bandwidth which may be broadcast according to these embodiments is not power, transponder, or expense - constrained to the extent that satellite communications are.) Second, they provide systems that are eminently suited for high bandwidth content, such as movie and video, distribution, because they use a broadcast architecture. This eliminates the need for the massive processing power and hardware for routing and switching data packets in a point-to-point architecture.
- Such embodiments of the present invention exploit the fact that the analog television signal is based on a system designed over a half century ago that does not use the maximum information capacity of the standard 6 MHz that each channel occupies of the television spectrum, and thus that there is an opportunity to add more information to it without degrading its ability to still carry the television programming it was intended to carry.
- Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus, methods and systems for effectuating a simultaneous transmission of a standard analog television signal and a digital data signal which may carry rich content of the sort discussed above, among other things.
- Embodiments of the present invention may be installed at a television broadcast facility and connected to a standard television station transmitter to effect the simultaneous propagation of both the existing television programming and a relatively high bandwidth digital data transmission in such a manner that standard television receivers continue to receive and display programming that is not perceptually impaired, yet special data receivers can detect and extract the intact digital signal.
- a preferred transmitter embodiment comprises a standard television signal path and a data signal path. Ultimately, the data is provided modulated substantially in quadrature to the video carrier thus rendering it theoretically "invisible" to the television receiver.
- embodiments of the present invention also include other novel circuits and processes for anticipating possible distortions and pre-correcting for them to improve the final picture quality as displayed by the television receiver as well as improving the amount and quality of data that may be successfully transported and then extracted from the signal.
- a first such technique for improving performance of systems includes “abating" or correcting the transmitted video signal for the effects of the digital data signal.
- the television signal as it is to be transmitted is sampled before the power amplifier stage of the television broadcast facility or at another appropriate point for certain "channel metrics".
- channel metrics can include, among other things, the injection phase of the data signal, insertion level, data channel equalization, abatement equalization, abatement optimization and synchronization offset control signals.
- These metrics are fed to, among other circuits, an abatement signal generator which, in one or more stages generates a correction signal in order to correct for effects of the data on the video signal.
- the abatement generator comprises a plurality of abatement stages for iteratively generating the abatement signal.
- Various embodiments of the present invention also include correction for nonlinear distortions in the television signal that are inherent in the process of amplifying it for transmission.
- Some or all of the channel metrics, in addition to the (abated if desired) video signal if desired, can be applied to a look up table or other circuits which reflect change of transmitter properties over time or other transmitter characteristics.
- a phase correction signal and an amplitude correction signal can be generated in order to adjust various parameters, including the data signal and, if desired, a reference signal generated by a loop for affecting up-conversion of the data signal to RF in order to harmonize it with the video signal.
- Various embodiments of the present invention are adapted to provide such a reference signal using, for example a phase locked loop (PLL) that is driven in part by a down-converted signal from the video signal after the exciter stage (or from another appropriate point).
- PLL phase locked loop
- the PLL can also use input from the look up table to reflect transmitter nonlinearities, as well as insertion phase adjustment, if desired, in order to control the local oscillator synthesis for the data up-conversion.
- Various embodiments of the present invention can also use the channel metrics generated by a monitor receiver to adjust filtering or other treatment of the data signal.
- the channel metrics can be provided to either or both Nyquist compensation circuitry, vestigial sideband filtering, in addition to other circuits in order to further improve performance of such embodiments.
- Television monitor receivers can include, among other things, one or more circuits that emulate or constitute portions of consumer grade television receivers whose geographic locations within the receiving area can also be emulated if desired.
- Such monitor receivers can also be software modeled entirely and thus in virtual form. They may emulate performance of a variety of television receivers, weight the response, and use the weighted response in order to generate channel metrics that can be used as discussed above.
- DSP digital signal processing
- Receivers can receive the combined data/video signal generated and transmitted according to the present invention, including the standard television signal and the data signal, and, among other things, can recover at least data-related signals such as data estimate signals. These signals can be filtered to obtain a predicted data output signal. According to some embodiments of the invention, a video estimate signal is filtered to predict an undesirable component in the predicted data output signal. A combiner can be used to subtract the undesirable component from the predicted data output signal.
- Receivers can also include, among other things, a symbol estimator and a symbol combiner.
- the symbol estimator generates a symbol estimate signal and the symbol combiner subtracts the predicted data output signal from the symbol estimate signal to produce a symbol error signal.
- the symbol error signal can be fed to adjust at least one adaptive filter used to produce the predicted data output signal and the undesirable component in the predicted data output signal.
- the adaptive filters perform both adaptive equalization and adaptive video (noise) cancellation using known techniques such as the least mean square (LMS) algorithm.
- LMS least mean square
- a preferred embodiment of a receiver device of the present invention also can include a sync recovery processor and a forward gain controller in order to take advantage of strong synchronization and timing properties of NTSC and other standard analog television signals.
- Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram showing portions of a preferred embodiment of transmitter-side systems according to one aspect of the invention.
- Fig. 2 is a data signal frequency plot taken at point 2-2 of the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is an expanded data signal frequency plot corresponding to the plot shown in Fig. 2.
- Fig. 4 is a video signal frequency plot taken at point 4-4 of the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 5 is a data signal frequency plot taken at point 5-5 of the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 6A is a functional block diagram of one version of a generator which may generate injection phase channel metrics for use in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 6B is a functional block diagram of a reference phase channel metric circuit which may be used with the generator of Fig. 6A in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 6C is a functional block diagram of a data phase channel metric circuit which may be used with the generator of Fig. 6A in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 7 is a functional block diagram of a monitor receiver which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 8 is a functional block diagram of a data channel equalization metric circuit which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 9 is a functional block diagram of a synchronization offset channel metric circuit which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 10 is a functional block diagram of an abatement equalization channel metric circuit which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 11 is a functional block diagram of an abatement optimization channel metric circuit which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 12 is a functional block diagram showing one form of abatement signal generator which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 13 is a functional block diagram showing one form of cascaded abatement signal generators which may be used in the system of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 14 is a functional block diagram showing one form of a video reference generator which may be used with abatement signal generators such as shown in Figs. 12 and 13.
- Fig. 15A is a functional block diagram of portions of a preferred embodiment of a receiver which may be used in accordance with the present invention.
- Fig. 15B is a functional block diagram of additional portions of a preferred embodiment of a receiver which may be used in accordance with the present invention.
- Fig. 15C is a functional block diagram of an alternative version of the embodiment shown in 15B
- Fig. 16 is a plot of a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Constellation after video cancellation and equalization in the receiver of Fig. 15.
- Fig. 17 is a plot of a QAM constellation showing television transmitter amplifier non-linear effects that occur in the receiver of Fig. 15.
- Fig. 18A and B are plots of a QAM constellation illustrating how the Constant Modulus Algorithm may be used for blind equalization.
- Figs. 1 - 17 Data transmitter and receiver systems according to preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown in Figs. 1 - 17. Briefly stated, the systems transmit and receive data in quadrature to a standard television signal's visual carrier, preferably as received by television receivers.
- the transmitter uses adaptive techniques to ensure that the data in the transmitted signal stays locked in perfect or near perfect quadrature with the video carrier as seen at the input to a television receiver's video detector circuit and to present television programming at the receiver without material visual effects from the data.
- the data transmission systems of the present invention include a data transmission input chain and a video input chain.
- the system takes advantage of the strong synchronization and timing properties of the TV video signal in order to simplify recovery of the data imposed by the data transmitter of the invention.
- An NTSC TV signal will be used as an exemplary TV signal herein. Those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited to NTSC signals, but is easily applicable to the PAL television signal used world wide.
- Figure 1 shows baseband video, such as from any conventional television programming source, applied to an A-to-D converter ("A/D") 100.
- the signal is sampled at about 34 mega-samples per second (“Msps"). It is sampled down (decimated) by a factor of 2 to approximately 17 Msps by a divide-by-2 filter,
- the data transmitter of the invention intercepts the video signal before exciter
- a delay can be introduced in the video path prior to output to the standard TV transmitter. That delay accounts for all the processing delays through the forward chain of the data encoding system so that at the point of injection of the data onto the video, all of the video-derived components of the composite signal injected by the data encoder are in synchronization with the actual video that is transmitted as the television signal.
- the delay equals the difference between the processing delay through the data transmitter and the delay through the TV transmitter. .
- a transmitter synchronization circuit 101 extracts from the video signal timing and synchronization information, such as the time locations of the horizontal and vertical sync intervals, the sync tip levels, and the frequency and phase of the chroma subcarrier.
- the transmitter synchronization circuit 101 uses the video signal decimated by 4. Conventional methods can be used to extract the timing and synchronization information.
- the extracted chroma subcarrier frequency and phase provide a master clock that forms the basis for driving all the data processing in the embodiment shown in Figure 1, such as, among other things, A/Ds, D/As, and frequency shifting of data signals.
- the data carrier signal is added to the visual carrier signal, the video carrier is approximately 20dB higher than the data signal. In brief, this relatively high power visual carrier signal provides the timing required to align the data with the video at the point of injection.
- the data which can be encapsulated, for example, in MPEG-2 transport packets, is first introduced to a Reed-Solomon forward error correction encoder 104, which expands the data from a 188 byte length to 208 bytes.
- the data is then subject to an interleave function 106 which scrambles the blocks in time.
- an interleave function 106 which scrambles the blocks in time.
- the Reed-Solomon coder along with the interleaver allows detection and correction of up to six bytes of error out of each 200 byte input block. These techniques are known in the art.
- TCM standard trellis code modulation
- the signal is then interpolated by two and filtered by a square root raised cosine (SRRC) filter, collectively designated as 112.
- SRRC square root raised cosine
- the output of the interpolator by two and the SSRC filter 112 is a complex baseband signal with unique upper and lower side bands. That is, the carrier is at DC or 0 Hz.
- the data signal is then interpolated by seven ("Interp By 7") at filter 114 to ensure that the system has enough excess bandwidth to process the signal without producing aliasing components.
- the interpolator appends six zeros after each data point, as is known in the art.
- the Inter By 7 circuit also receives channel metric control ("CMC") signals as discussed below from a monitor receiver for reasons described below.
- CMC channel metric control
- a mixer 116 multiplies the complex baseband QAM signal by a complex 400 KHz subcarrier and shifts the QAM signal by 400 KHz.
- Other embodiments may involve shifting the QAM signal by as much as 850 KHz to take advantage of an additional reduction in impairment that results from the shift in spectral energy away from the video carrier and away from the main region of sensitivity of the video detectors found in consumer grade television receivers.
- this reduced impairment of the video signal such a shift also mitigates the receiver system phase noise and the attendant corruption of the desired data signal by in-phase elements such as the video and video synch.
- Another embodiment of the invention might include a means for dynamically selecting from a number of QAM constellations to optimize data throughput depending on the predicted average receiver's signal-to-noise ratio. This approach enables the operator of the system to take advantage shifts in the quality of RF signal propagation that occur between daytime and night, or which are related to weather or other temporary conditions, or to optimize a particular system for the Rf propagation characteristics of the local terrain or the distance to the intended receiver or other purposes.
- the transmitter system then takes the real part of the result, which creates a real signal having both positive and negative frequency components. This is combined and after other manipulations and adjustments is passed to the TV station's power amplifier 159 and tapped to obtain out going channel metrics 160 as it passes to the TV station's transmission tower 161.
- Figure 2 illustrates the real part of the output from the mixer 116. Referring to Fig. 2, a frequency plot of the data signal at point 2-2 of Fig. 1, the total bandwidth occupied by the real signal fits within the plus or minus 750 KHz double side band (DSB) region of the NTSC signal around the video carrier. Such bandwidth ensures that none of the energy enters the VSB transition region and prevents distortion by the VSB filter. Additionally, this technique results in effectively no data energy at DC, which in this figure will later map to the video carrier. The video carrier has its strongest energy around the DC value hence the separation of the data subcarrier from DC substantially reduces interference.
- DSB double side band
- Fig. 3 which expands the frequency plot of Fig. 2, the data energy is more than lOdB below peak energy within +/- 50-60 KHz of the video carrier. Because it is difficult to maintain quadrature, this "notch" reduces the potential for interference by the video information at the video carrier, which is approximately 20dB greater than the data energy in one embodiment.
- Fig. 4 is an NTSC video carrier frequency plot which illustrates, as one would expect, that most of the video energy is concentrated around the video carrier.
- the data transmission system achieves this wave shape, that is, a notch around the video carrier, bandwidth within +/- 750 KHz, through choice of the symbol rate and the SRRC filtering function.
- a square root raised cosine filter matched to the 613 Kilosymbol rate with an excess bandwidth factor of 0.25 was used in the particular embodiment illustrated in Fig 3 and 4.
- the filter is chosen to keep impulse response short.
- Phase noise is also concentrated primarily in a "close-in" region +/- 50 to 100
- Phase noise is caused by fluctuations in the instantaneous phase of the visual carrier resulting from the television transmission and reception processes.
- the transmitter system essentially achieves a very large amount of cancellation of the phase noise during subsequent detection.
- the data subcarrier (“dNTSC") represents a double sideband signal which is detected and from which a baseband signal is derived by folding the sidebands of the data subcarrier on top of each other.
- dNTSC data subcarrier
- the instantaneous phase noise components in the lower sideband largely cancel the same but now inverted instantaneous phase noise components in the upper sideband.
- the embodiment shown in Figure 1 also reduces the interference effect of the data on the video.
- Translating the data energy to a higher frequency reduces the perceptibility of the data signal at the TV receiver.
- TV detectors are not as sensitive to data modulation energy if the data is at a higher frequency.
- Frequency translation moves the data energy away from the center frequency of the video carrier, and the higher- frequency data energy tends to be cancelled more by the Nyquist Complement Filter (“NCF") 120 that follows the mixer 116 and by the Nyquist filter in the television receiver. That is, the roll-off resulting from the combination of the two filters severely attenuates signals far from the video carrier.
- NCF Nyquist Complement Filter
- the NCF 120 counteracts the effects of the Nyquist filter in the television receiver. As described in USSN 09/062225 and PCT/US99/08513, which are incorporated herein by this reference, the NCF 120 may account for a single TV receiver's Nyquist filter, for a statistical combination of the Nyquist filters in different models of TV receivers, or for signals produced by emulation of such devices.
- the NCF also receives the CMC signals, described below.
- the NCF may be combined with a VSB filter.
- Figure 5 is a data signal frequency plot which illustrates QAM data after passing through the NCF and VSB filter 120.
- the result is a complex wave shape with most of the data energy lying along the real axis.
- the signal Prior to the 400 KHz subcarrier modulation, the signal is at complex baseband relative to the subcarrier frequency. By mixing with the subcarrier and taking the real part, the signal is in a signal space where the baseband is related to the video carrier.
- the output of the NCF 120 is interpolated by two in interpolator 122, so that the data signal matches the rate of the video that is being fed into the abatement process.
- an abatement generator 124 receives a data signal, the output from the interpolator 122, and a video complex baseband signal, the output from the divide by 2 filter 102.
- the abatement generator 124 also receives channel metric control signals from a monitor receiver 160. From these inputs and functional elements described in connection with, among others, FIG. 12, the abatement generator outputs an abatement signal 125 and data signal 126.
- the abatement signal 125 is in-phase with the video signal and is used to correct, adjust, and/or modify the video signal at the point of the insertion, the coupler 142.
- the data signal 126 is a delayed version of the output from the interpolator 122.
- a correction/compensation subsystem 127 can be included in the transmitter encoder to correct and compensate for non-linear distortions.
- non-linear distortions are introduced into the video signal as the signal passes through the power amplifier in the TV transmitter.
- the subsystem 127 receives, among other signals, channel metrics control signals from the monitor receiver 160 and outputs non-linear phase correction vector 128 and a non-linear amplitude correction factor 129.
- Multipliers 121 and 123 are used to compensate the abatement signal 125 in amplitude and phase, respectively.
- multipliers 131 and 133 are used to compensate the data signal 126 in amplitude and phase, respectively.
- a phase shifter 135 shifts in 90 degrees the data signal.
- a combiner 137 combines the phase and amplitude corrected abatement signal and the data signal that is shifted and compensated in phase and amplitude for non-linear distortions.
- the simplest implementation of the correction/compensation subsystem 127 would be an embodiment where the amplitude and phase of the correction signal is a direct function of the instantaneous video voltage.
- the video voltage is appropriately scaled and offset, and used as the independent variable into a computation process that results in the appropriate complex correction factor.
- This computation process can be implemented in many ways, such as a simple linear or non-linear equation, a fixed lookup table, etc.
- More sophisticated implementations can include, for example, having the correction factor calculation process vary as a function of time, such as a using a different calculation during the vertical and horizontal sync intervals than during the active video interval.
- the input to the calculation can have a value that is related to the past history of the video.
- a very desirable embodiment is to combine the concepts just discussed in a system that computes the correction factor based on the past and present values of video, using computation means that either vary discreetly (time multiplexed) or continuously (linearly combined) as a function of the video sync interval.
- AD9857 direct digital synthesis (“DDS") modulator includes an interpolator 132 which interpolates the output of the combiner 137 by 8.
- Mixer 134 then mixes the interpolated signal with a reference signal, which is, for example, at 45 MHz, from a reference oscillator, 136, and generates an intermediate frequency (IF) signal.
- a digital-to-analog converter, 138 converts the IF signal to analog form.
- An up- converter, 140 translates the resulting IF data-carrying analog signal to a standard
- TV channel frequency such as channel 2, 4, 5, and etc.
- An analog television transmitter outputs TV programming in, for example, NTSC format.
- TV video signals from the exciter 103 of the TV transmitter system shown in FIG. 1 are output at standard TV channel frequencies, such as channels 2, 4, 5, and etc.
- An RF coupler 150 couples this signal to a down-converter 152.
- the down-converter 152 translates the TV signal to a nominal IF, for example, 45 MHz.
- a reference oscillator 154 implemented, for example, using an AD9851 DDS, runs off the same clock as the oscillator 136 and generates a reference signal at IF, which is, for example, at 45 MHz.
- the TV transmitter outputs an NTSC signal, which has an IF of approximately 45 MHz.
- a phase lock loop (PLL) 156 compares the reference signal to the down- converted TV signal. Based on the comparison, the PLL adjusts a local oscillator synthesizer 158 so that the down-converted TV signal has the same phase and frequency as the reference.
- PLL phase lock loop
- the up-converter 140 and the down-converter 152 comprise nearly identical components.
- the corresponding adjustment signal of the local oscillator synthesizer 158 can be used to adjust the up-converter 140 so that the in-phase component of RF output signal (discussed below) has the same frequency and phase as the TV RF channel signal, i.e., the two signals are coherent.
- the relative phase of the local oscillator 158 and the reference oscillator 154 it is therefore possible to adjust the relative phase of the reference RF signal and the dNTSC reference signal.
- a coupler 142 injects the up-converted data signal onto the TV RF signal.
- the coupler 142 output is fed to the transmitter through a power amplifier 162, and preferably also provided to one or more monitor receivers 160 which can be implemented in hardware or software or a combination, at any desired point or location, in any desired number and type.
- the monitor receiver 160 is used to provide channel metric feedback parameters to signal processing elements in the data transmission path in order to address these issues, among others.
- the information-carrying RF signal injected at the injection coupler 142 includes an abatement, correction, modification and/or modulating signal along the in-phase axis ("abatement signal"), as well as a data signal along the quadrature axis relative to the phase of the television transmitter's visual carrier.
- the abatement signal is added to the television video signal from the TV transmitter, whereas the data signal is added in quadrature to the television video signal.
- One of the primary metrics that the monitor receiver 160 measures is the injection phase of the data signal to help ensure that the injection phase is in quadrature to the television visual (video) carrier. By using the monitor receiver 160, the data transmission system of the present invention more perfectly approaches the objective of having the injection phase within one degree of quadrature to the visual carrier.
- Data Egualization Channel Metrics Another metric measured by the monitor receiver is equalization.
- Various elements of the transmission system including the VSB filter, the power amplifier and power combiners after the injection point, and differences between components in the up-converter and the down-converter, distort the frequency response of the RF data signal.
- the frequency response of the data should be flat across frequency and phase and be free of uneven group delay. These distortions will also interfere with the video at the TV receiver.
- the monitor receiver 160 monitors the frequency response of the data signal to provide a channel metric to the combined NCF and VSB filter 120 to cause the filter to preequalize the data, thereby minimizing distortion at the user's TV receiver.
- an equalizer training sequence can be input at the data input of the data transmission system.
- the monitor receiver 160 compares the spectrum of the received data to the known spectrum of the equalizer training sequence to determine the distortion to the spectrum.
- the equalizer training sequence is also used in the data receiver of the present invention, as described below.
- abatement is a process to apply a correction, adjustment, and/or modification signal to the television transmitter's visual carrier to reduce visible effects of the dNTSC data subcarrier upon an ordinary television receiver. Based on these abatement metrics the monitor receiver 160 provides parameters to the abatement generator 124, so that it can correct for distortions caused by processing of the signal after the abatement generator.
- abatement equalization which relates to the selection of the filters that model the
- abatement optimization measures how well the abatement signal is doing, for example, when a particular TV receiver model receives the standard television signal transmitted by the transmitter system of the present invention.
- the monitor receiver 160 employs an adaptive algorithm, for example, least mean square (LMS) or recursive least square (RLS), to adjust signal processing elements of the data transmitter, so as to minimize the error between the metrics and a desired reference parameter for each metric.
- LMS least mean square
- RLS recursive least square
- the algorithm need not adjust the transmitter signal processing in real-time, but may do so periodically at a slower rate.
- a typical television transmitter diplexer may have phase and amplitude distortion which changes slowly as a result of temperature or aging.
- the adaptive algorithm will not be required to maintain a high update rate to track and remove these distortions.
- Figure 6A illustrates a generator for injection phase and amplitude channel metric signals for use in the system of Fig. 1.
- a phase control generator 600 generates the same training sequence as the data transmitter. Such sequences can be drawn from a subset of a high order QAM constellation, for example a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) alphabet.
- QPSK quadrature phase shift keying
- a modulator or modulator emulator 602 modulates or emulates modulation of the training signal using the same signal processing as the transmitter up until the generation of the complex baseband signal after the complex 400 KHz subcarrier modulation. The resulting data signal is on the real axis.
- a delay element 604 is provided with a complex baseband signal received by the monitor receiver 160. That is, the monitor receiver 160 such as shown in Fig. 7 provides a received complex baseband signal from a stage of the DSP receiver corresponding to the output of the Quasi-Synchronous detector of the data receiver of Fig. 15 (before quadrature detection of the data) in response to a training sequence input.
- the delay element 604 delays the complex baseband signal to account for the delay of the training signal through the modulator 602.
- phase error The phase error should be zero if the received data is in quadrature to the real training signal data.
- a non-zero phase error represents a deviation of the received data from quadrature.
- the correlator 606 can be modeled as a mixer followed by a low pass filter.
- the actual data can be used if the monitor receiver has access to the signal data that is being transmitted.
- the phase error is passed through a filter 608 and applied to the reference oscillator in the encoder. This constitutes the closed loop control of the signal injection phase.
- a 90 degree phase shift is applied to the modulated data signal to rotate it to the quadrature axis, so that it is in phase with the received data.
- Another correlator 612 correlates the phase-shifted data with the delayed complex baseband data signal to provide an amplitude estimate.
- the amplitude estimate is subtracted from an amplitude reference, which is derived from the video levels used in the calculation of the abatement signal.
- the difference is then filtered with a loop filter 614 using conventional techniques or as otherwise desired, such a filter could, for example be a second order loop filter with a closed loop response of
- This control signal can be used to scale the coefficients of the interpolate-by-7 filter 114 of the transmitter encoder 100, thereby adjusting the gain and minimizing the injection level error.
- the monitor receiver 160 can be coupled directly to the injection point through a directional coupler or it could include an antenna receiving the RF signal from the data transmitter. It may also be implemented in software or as otherwise desired.
- Fig. 7 illustrates a block diagram of an embodiment of the monitor receiver 160 used in connection with the embodiment of the transmitter side circuitry shown in Fig. 1.
- the RF signal is down- converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) by a down-converter 700.
- a DSP receiver 702 then processes the IF signal in a manner which may be similar to the data receiver 1500 to recover the data.
- a DSP metric generator 704 generates metrics 705, which are related to the injection level, injection phase, data channel equalization, abatement equalization, abatement optimization and synchronization offset signals, for example.
- the metrics 705 are input to corresponding DSP control algorithms, collectively designated as 706, which produce the "channel metric" control signals to the NCF and other elements of the system of Fig. 1.
- the monitor receiver 160 can emulate any number of same type or different type communication receivers operating under many conditions. For instance, several brand name television receivers could be emulated either in software or hardware, or a combination thereof, and their results weighted, to provide channel metrics that provide best operation of the system of Fig. 1 in a particular geographic area or market. In Fig. 7, a user's television model database 708 is used to generate the abatement model update control signal.
- an adaptive filter 802 receives the weights of the data adaptive filter in the monitor receiver 160 after training and while the data receiver is in normal operation.
- the weights indicate the frequency response of the data filter.
- the adaptive filter 802 receives these weights and an ideal frequency response 804, e.g., a flat response.
- the adaptive filter 802 outputs new interpolation weights for the interpolate by 7 filter 114 to drive the error difference between the data filter and ideal weights to zero.
- Figure 9 illustrates synchronization offset control performed by the monitor receiver 160.
- a decision-directed symbol timing estimator 900 receives from the monitor receiver 160 during normal operation the epoch counters, the symbol estimates and received data samples at the decision points of the symbol estimator 900. Based on differences between the symbol estimates and the corresponding data samples, the Decision Directed (DD) symbol timing estimator outputs a timing error.
- DD Decision Directed
- an adaptive filter (such as the above-referenced Kalman filter) 902 provides updates to the interpolate-by-7 filter 114 to add or subtract enough delay to bring the timing error to zero. This delay is implemented by forming a new set of filter coefficients that shifts the impulse response by the appropriate amount of time.
- Figure 10 illustrates the abatement equalization channel metric signal generator, 1000.
- the monitor receiver 160 takes the complex baseband signal at the output of the power amplifier 162 and outputs a video estimate, which is compared to the video reference from a video reference generator. The result is a residual error signal.
- An adaptive filter 1002 is used to provide model parameters to adjust a Nyquist filter in the monitor receiver 160 in order to minimize the residual error, i.e., make the complex baseband estimated video signal as close as possible to the video reference. These same parameters are output to adjust a Nyquist filter in the abatement generator 124.
- Figure 11 illustrates the abatement optimization channel metric signal generator, 1100.
- statistical abatement optimization can statistically account for not just one TV type, but different models of TV receivers, collectively designated as 1102, within a broadcast region. Optimization need not be a real-time process, but may be done periodically, for example, over days to weeks.
- abatement optimization can compare the video estimate from each model TV receiver with the video reference to generate residual error signals.
- the abatement optimizer 1106 can statistically weight the residual error signals according to the statistical prevalence of the receiver model, for example, the popularity of particular TV sets within the region of broadcast.
- a Kalman or other adaptive filter 1104 then adjusts the model parameters to minimize the weighted residual errors. The resulting parameters are used to adjust the Nyquist filter in the model TV of the abatement generator 124.
- Fig. 12 illustrates one stage 1200 of an embodiment of an abatement generator 124 shown in Fig. 1.
- the abatement generator 124 models one or more TV receiver's processing of a television video signal that has had data imposed upon it by the data transmitter of the present invention.
- the abatement generator subtracts a television video reference signal from the emulated video that results from the model receiver's processing. The difference is a video correction factor that, preferably after an iterative process, is added in-phase to the television video signal.
- An adder 1202 in the abatement generator receives the video complex baseband signal.
- a phase shifter 1204 shifts by 90 degrees the phase of the data after the combined NCF and VSB filter 120 and the interpolator 122 in Fig. 1.
- the adder 1202 combines this phase-shifted data with the video baseband signal. This addition mimics the addition of the data signal to the video signal at the injection point of the data transmitter, e.g., the coupler 142 in Fig. 1.
- a model VSB filter 1206 that emulates the VSB filter in one or more typical customer television sets and filters the sum signal output of the adder 1202.
- the model VSB filter 1206 may emulate the VSB filter of a popular TV model within the region of a TV broadcast station, or, alternatively, represent a statistically weighted sum of the VSB filter coefficients for a number of TV models within the region. The weighting depends on the relative popularity of the corresponding television sets within the region.
- the filter output is designated as an RF signal model of the video signal representing one or more typical TV receivers. Note that this signal model is not actually an RF signal, but a complex baseband signal modeling the combined video and data signal.
- model TV receiver 1210 which includes a model TV Nyquist filter 1212 and a model TV quasi- synchronous (QS) detector 1214.
- these elements may represent the Nyquist filter and QS detector of one typical receiver or the weighted combination of corresponding elements of multiple receivers.
- QS detector 1214 comprises a low pass filter and a limiter to generate a carrier estimate signal, as would be recognized by one skilled in the art.
- the delay element 1216 accounts for the delay of the low pass filter and the limiter to time-align the signals in both paths of the QS detector when they are mixed in a mixer 1218.
- the mixing of the complex carrier estimate with the complex delayed output of the model Nyquist filter 1212 shifts the latter to baseband, thereby resulting in an estimate of the video signal at a model receiver by extracting the real part of the product.
- simpler circuits can be used for abatement including single stage linear systems which for instance use no video component.
- a video reference signal is delayed by a reference delay 1220 to account for the processing delay of the model VSB filter 1206 and the model TV receiver 1210.
- a combiner 1222 subtracts the delayed video reference from the video estimate to generate a video correction factor. In other words, the sum of the video correction factor and the video estimate would ideally result in the known video reference signal.
- Another combiner 1224 adds the video correction factor to the similarly- delayed video correction factor from a previous stage, if any. Iterated Abatement Generators
- the abatement stages of Fig. 12 are cascaded with the output of one stage contributing to the input of the next stage.
- three stages are shown.
- an adder 1302 adds the video reference from the previous stage with the first-stage video correction factor to generate a first-order corrected video signal 1304, which substitutes as the input for the video baseband signal that was used in the first stage.
- the corresponding sum would be a second-order corrected video signal, 1306.
- the video correction factor better corrects the video.
- the final correction factor will likely not be perfect, however, because the video correction factor is only being added in-phase to the video as the abatement factor output of the abatement generator. Regardless, experiments show that three iterations obtain satisfactory results. Any number can be used or simulated.
- FIG 14 illustrates a video reference generator 1400 that provides the video reference for the abatement generator 124 in Figs. 1.
- the video reference can be the baseband video without any data that is input to the TV transmitter.
- the video reference generator includes a model VSB filter 1404 followed by a model TV Nyquist filter 1406 and a model QS detector 1408 as in the abatement generator stage 1200 illustrated in Figure 12.
- the input to the video reference generator is the raw baseband video feed that is input to the standard TV transmitter without the data.
- FIG. 15 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a data receiver in accordance with aspects of the present invention.
- a television tuner circuit such as a conventional TV tuner circuit 1502 down converts the RF TV channel signal (e.g., at the frequency of channel 2, 4, etc.) to an IF (e.g., 45 MHz).
- the signal can be a signal transmitted over a cable TV system, satellite, or otherwise.
- An A/D converter 1504 converts the analog IF signal to a digital TV signal.
- An A/D numerically controlled oscillator (NCO), or direct digital synthesizer (DDS) 1506 controls the A/D sampling rate to be approximately 34.3636 MHz, which has been chosen as 48/5 x the chroma subcarrier frequency of the video.
- NCO numerically controlled oscillator
- DDS direct digital synthesizer
- a mixer 1508 down shifts the video intermediate frequency to zero hertz.
- the resulting zero frequency IF is represented with complex numbers and is commonly referred to as complex baseband.
- a complex roofing (low-pass) filter 1510 with an approximately four megahertz bandwidth is used to reduce the information bandwidth of the IF signal subsequent to sample rate reduction by four. The filter assures that the sample rate reduction process will not result in distortion of the IF signal through non-linear aliasing effects.
- a receiver QS detector 1512 is used for carrier recovery.
- the QS detector 1512 includes a bandpass filter and a limiter.
- the recovered carrier in the quasisynchronous detector can be passed through a frequency discriminator 1514 to form an estimate of the frequency offset relative to zero hertz. This estimate can be used as an input to a control loop which will adjust the frequency of the Carrier Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) 1516 in order to reduce the frequency offset to zero.
- NCO Carrier Numerically Controlled Oscillator
- the passband of the filter 1513 is chosen so that it passes the video but not the data.
- a block phase estimator or a PLL may be used.
- a mixer 1520 mixes the recovered carrier with the processed received signal to bring the received signal carrier down to DC, so that the video component is on the real axis.
- the signal is passed through a Nyquist filter 1522. The real part of the result is then taken. This provides a video estimate 1540, which is at baseband and is being sampled at 12/5 x the chroma rate.
- a video processor 1530 (Sync Recovery Logic) recovers the amplitude of the sync pulses (sync magnitude) and the location of the television video signal with respect to the timing epoch and the chroma subcarrier phase.
- an epoch is 525 lines or one frame of video.
- the video processor 1530 synchronizes epoch counters to be synchronous with the video frame.
- a timing control loop 1532 uses the outputs from the video processor 1530 to adjust the A/D NCO 1506 to phase lock the receiver A/D sampling rate to the chroma subcarrier. In this manner, the A/D samples are referenced to the chroma subcarrier. However, the system must also identify which cycle it is currently processing. In NTSC, there are 227 1/2 cycles/line.
- the timing control loop 1532 uses the epoch counter information to identify the cycle relative to the horizontal and vertical sync pulses. Therefore, the system has recovered the time reference of the TV signal, including adjustment of the A/D NCO receiver clock to match the clock of the transmitter system of Fig. 1. Once it is determined and controlled that the local time is synchronous with the video chroma sub-carrier and aligned with the video framing, the local data processing clocks are reset to ensure that the recovered data is sampled at the proper instance.
- the sync magnitude output of the video processor 1530 represents the amplitude of the NTSC signal sync tips.
- a front end amplitude gain control (AGC) processor 1534 provides a gain control signal to a loop filter and scales the signal before the sub carrier mix. In other embodiments, this AGC control signal may be applied to the tuner 1502 to maintain the amplitude of the IF signal within the limits of the A/D.
- a delay delays the signal the same amount as the Nyquist filter in the upper arm. The imaginary part of the delayed signal is then taken. This ideally results in a real QAM data signal in the form of a double-sided Nyquist-compensated waveform.
- the two signal processing arms together comprises a synchronous detector.
- the front end AGC 1534 provides a digital feed forward gain control signal to a first, video multiplier 1550 and a second, data multiplier 1552 to maintain a constant gain of the video and data signals with respect to the sync tip magnitude after detection of the video and data signals.
- This arrangement constitutes a dual detector path providing the advantages discussed below.
- a video down converter mixer 1554 and a data down converter mixer 1556 mix the video and data estimates, respectively, with a signal having a frequency of Fad/86, where Fad is the sampling frequency of the A/D.
- Fad is the sampling frequency of the A/D.
- This signal is produced by a local oscillator 1558.
- the local oscillator frequency of Fad/86 was chosen so that the QAM signal of Figure 2 could be shifted down to complex baseband using a simple numeric oscillator based on a lookup table.
- the video is similarly down converted to baseband.
- a video square root raised cosine filter (SRRC) 1560 and a data SRRC 1562 are applied to the down converted video and data signals, respectively. These filters are matched to the transmit filters and will result in minimum inter-symbol interference in the absence of channel distortion. Because the signals are over sampled at this point, the filters also decimate the signals by seven, which brings the rate to two samples per symbol, which is the same frequency used at an early stage of the transmitter.
- SRRC video square root raised cosine filter
- the receiver uses adaptive filtering to correct for channel distortions which could cause the video signal to interfere with the data on the quadrature axis.
- Other distortions to the data include effects such as multipath.
- the adaptive filters 1566 and 1567 perform both adaptive equalization and adaptive video cancellation using known techniques such as the least mean square (LMS) algorithm.
- LMS least mean square
- the video passes through the same signal processing as the data, it is similarly affected by multipath and other undesired effects. Accordingly, the video estimate is highly correlated with the undesired components present in the data estimate, and can be used to adaptively eliminate the distortions to the data mentioned above.
- FIG. 15c shows another embodiment of the present invention that is consistent with such an approach.
- the equalization circuitry comprises a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) 1584 in addition to the two transversal, forward filters. All three filters are adaptive.
- the output of the switch that provides symbol estimates or training symbols is multiplied by inverse values of gain and phase control signals provided by the AGC Control 1576.
- the multiplier output is used as input to the adaptive DFE filter 1584
- the output of the DFE is added 1588 to the output of the summer that combines the forward filter outputs.
- the DFE is itself an FIR filter that is embedded in a feedback loop, so its overall impulse response is of infinite duration.
- CMA Constant Modulus Algorithm
- CMA is the blind equalization algorithm that is most frequently encountered in the current art.
- Other options include explicit higher order statistics algorithms or their discrete Fourier transforms known as Polyspectra. While still other approaches could include Cyclostationary statistic based algorithms and others.
- the video adaptive FIR filter 1566 is used to predict the undesired components in the data estimate 1542.
- the data adaptive FIR filter 1567 predicts the data.
- the predicted undesired component is subtracted from the predicted data in a combiner 1568.
- Fig. 16 illustrates the QAM data constellation after video cancellation and equalization by the adaptive filters.
- a symbol estimator 1570 makes a hard decision as to which symbol is being transmitted based on a comparison of the filtered data with appropriate thresholds.
- a subtractor 1572 subtracts the filtered data from the symbol estimate to derive a symbol error vector, 1573.
- the symbol error 1573 is fed back to the video and data adaptive filters 1566 and 1567, thereby providing "decision directed adaption".
- the data adaptive filter 1567 shapes the data waveform to minimize the symbol error, and the video adaptive filter 1566 uses the symbol error to better predict the undesired components on the data.
- a gain or a gain/phase error detector 1574 determines the gain and phase error of the filtered data. These errors are fed to an AGC/PLL 1576, which provides a gain/phase vector control signal to a multiplier 1578 after the combiner 1568 in order to correct for the gain or the gain and phase errors.
- Certain embodiments of the present invention use a feedback AGC as described in Provisional patent application 60/341,931.
- Such a feedback equalizer architecture can use feedback samples comprised of weighted contributions of scaled soft and inversely-scaled hard decision samples, and adapts forward and feedback filters using weighted contributions of update error terms, such as Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA) and Least Mean Squares (LMS) error terms.
- CMA Constant Modulus Algorithm
- LMS Least Mean Squares
- Combining weights are selected on a symbol-by-symbol basis by a measure of current sample quality.
- Such an AGC also employs an automatic gain control circuit in which the gain is adjusted at every symbol instance by a stochastic gradient descent update rule to provide scaling factors for the hard and soft decisions, thus minimizing novel cost criteria.
- the filtered data is also input to a trellis code modulator (TCM) decoder 1580, which is followed by a Reed Solomon decoder 1582 to recover the original data to be provided for output.
- TCM trellis code modulator
- the power amplifier in a TV transmitter has a non-linear gain response.
- the gain compresses, i.e., reduces.
- the power output of a TV transmitter is highest during transmission of the sync pulses.
- Another aspect of the invention may include compensation of transmitter nonlinear amplitude and phase distortion in the dNTSC encoder.
- This compensation can consist of look up tables that generate gain and phase control words as a function of video amplitude.
- the transmitter of Figure 1 does not transmit data when the sync pulses are at their maximum level.
- the data is arranged to be 39 symbols per TV scan line, with 4 symbols occurring during the horizontal sync pulse interval. Those 4 symbols do not carry information to be transmitted by the user.
- the transmitter formats the data so that 188 bytes of data fit within each epoch.
- the transmitter outputs a training sequence.
- a training sequence can be drawn from a subset of a high order QAM constellation, for example a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) alphabet.
- QPSK quadrature phase shift keying
- the receiver 1500 uses the training sequence in order to initialize the adaptive filter coefficients to start acquisition of the QAM data signal. Because the receiver 1500 has already recovered timing from the video, the receiver 1500 knows where to look in the video epoch for the training sequence. During the time of the training sequence, the output of the symbol estimator 1570 is not fed into the combiner 1572 or the gain/phase error detector 1574 as a reference signal. Instead, a switch switches in the training sequence as a reference into those elements. As a result, the combiner 1572 compares the filtered data to the training sequence, and the gain/phase error detector 1574 makes a similar comparison.
- the training sequence is a known desired signal (as opposed to only an estimate)
- the resulting outputs can be used to initialize the adaptive filter weights and the gain and phase of the filtered data.
- the use of training sequences for signal acquisition is known in the art (e.g., the acquisition of data for V.90 modems) and numerous approaches may be employed as an element of any particular embodiment of the present invention.
- the filter weights may be frozen (not change) or they may be adjusted with any one of a number of blind deconvolution algorithms.
- Acquisition mode continues for a number of fields (with the weights adjusting to each field's training sequence), and ends after the symbol error for the training sequence reaches a desired level, as is generally known in the art of data acquisition.
- the symbol decision errors are reduced below a preset threshold then the acquisition is completed.
- the filters 1566 and 1567 adapt during both the non-training sequence portion and the training sequence portion of the video field.
- the filter weights can be calculated directly using the Wiener-Hopf direct solution if the computing power in the receiver is sufficient.
- the system can alternatively transmit and receive a lower rate, lower complexity signal (e.g., QPSK) in a satisfactory manner. This allows the system to transmit approximately an additional 25-50 KB of data. These symbols can be used as a command channel to transmit instructions and status information to the receiver. To accommodate for this information, the receiver would include a parallel set of symbol estimator/error detector and AGC/PLL that is switched in during the horizontal sync pulse interval.
- a lower rate, lower complexity signal e.g., QPSK
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