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Tuner circuit and digital broadcast receiver with low distortion performance and low power consumption

一种调谐器、电路的技术,应用在带有阻抗电路的放大器、电视、彩色电视等方向,能够解决功耗增大、热量问题、大驱动电流不合需求等问题,达到良好失真性能、低功耗的效果

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-03-14
SHARP KK
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Therefore, even when simply increasing the drive current of the emitter follower circuit 120, power consumption undesirably increases
In addition, the heat generated due to the large drive current poses a problem
For mobile applications, batteries have a limited lifetime; therefore, high drive currents are undesirable

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[0138] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a digital broadcast receiver 100 according to a first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , a digital broadcast receiver 100 includes a tuner circuit 1 and a signal processing circuit 3 . The tuner circuit 1 includes a broadband amplifier 11, an RF input filter 12, an RF-AGC amplifier 13, an RF interstage filter 14, a PLL circuit 15, a local oscillator 16, a frequency mixing circuit 17, an IF amplifier 18, an automatic gain control circuit 19 , emitter follower circuit 20 , IF filter 21 , IF-AGC amplifier 22 , A / D converter 23 , digital demodulation circuit 24 , and error correction circuit 25 .

[0139] The broadband amplifier 11 receives a television signal (RF signal) received by the antenna 2, amplifies the signal over a broadband, and outputs the resulting signal. The RF input filter 12 receives the signal output from the broadband amplifier 11, removes unnecessary components from t...

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[0155] FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a digital broadcast receiver 100A according to a second embodiment of the present invention, and is related to FIG. 1 . The digital broadcast receiver 100A includes a tuner circuit 51 and a signal processing circuit 3 . The tuner circuit 51 shown in FIG. 4 is different from the tuner circuit 1 shown in FIG. 1 in that an inverter circuit 52 is newly provided. It should be noted that components in FIG. 4 corresponding to those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals in FIG. 1; therefore, a detailed description thereof will not be given here.

[0156]Referring to FIG. 4 , the inverter circuit 52 inverts the RF-AGC voltage output from the automatic gain control circuit 19 and supplies the resulting voltage to the emitter follower circuit 20 . This circuit configuration is applied to the case of using the inversion-type automatic gain control circuit 19 that lowers the RF-AGC voltage when the recept...

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[0162] FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a schematic configuration of a digital broadcast receiver 100B according to a third embodiment of the present invention, and is related to FIG. 4 . The digital broadcast receiver 100B includes a tuner circuit 71 and a signal processing circuit 3 . The tuner circuit 71 shown in FIG. 6 differs from the tuner circuit 51 shown in FIG. 4 in that a comparison circuit 72 is newly provided. It should be noted that components in FIG. 6 corresponding to those in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals in FIG. 4; therefore, a detailed description thereof will not be given here.

[0163] Referring to FIG. 6 , the comparison circuit 72 compares the RF-AGC voltage output from the automatic gain control circuit 19 with a reference voltage, and outputs a voltage to the inverter circuit 52 according to the comparison result.

[0164] FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the comparison circuit 72 shown in FIG. 6 . As shown in FIG...

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Abstract

In a tuner circuit, an automatic gain control circuit generates an RF-AGC voltage for automatically controlling a gain of an RF-AGC amplifier in accordance with a level of a signal output from an IF amplifier. An emitter follower circuit includes a transistor for current amplification, and varies a drive current of the transistor in accordance with the RF-AGC voltage. Thus, when an interference signal is at a high level, the drive current of the transistor becomes large. Therefore, distortion performance of the emitter follower circuit is improved. On the other hand, in a normal state where the interference signal is at a low level, the drive current of the transistor fails to become large. Therefore, low power consumption is achieved.

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[0001] This non-provisional application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-257876 filed with the Japan Patent Office on September 6, 2005, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. technical field [0002] The present invention relates to tuner circuits and digital broadcast receivers. In particular, the present invention relates to a tuner circuit and a digital broadcast receiver each of which receives a digital broadcast television signal. Background technique [0003] About 50 years have passed since analogue television broadcasting began. Now, digital terrestrial television broadcasting and digital cable television broadcasting tend to become mainstream. Digital broadcasting is superior to analog broadcasting in terms of picture quality, number of channels, and features. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for digital broadcast receivers, such as TV receivers, VTRs (Video Tape Recorders), or STBs (Set Top Boxes), which can re...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04N5/44H04N5/50H04N5/52H03G3/20H03G3/30H04B1/16
CPCH03F3/50H04N21/42607H03F3/189H03G3/3068H04N5/4401H04N5/50H04N21/426
Inventor 大岩浩二
Owner SHARP KK