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Digital audio scrambling system with pulse amplitude modulation

US4752953A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 11, 1986
Grant dateJun 21, 1988
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Expiry dateAug 11, 2006

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04K1/02
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a system for scrambling an audio signal for transmission with a video signal having non-video information intervals, an analog audio signal is converted into a scrambled compressed digital audio signal; individual bits from the scrambled compressed digital audio signal are combined to provide 2-bit digital words; each digital word is converted into an 8-bit digital PAM data signal having a binary value bearing a predetermined relationship to the binary value of the converted 2-bit digital word; the 8-bit digital PAM data signal is converted into a 4-level PAM analog signal; and the PAM analog signals are inserted into the non-video information intervals of the video signal for transmission. A descrambling system descrambles the 4-level PAM analog signals by a complementary scheme.

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