84 results about "Radio Data System" patented technology

A method and system for a single chip integrated Bluetooth and FM transceiver and baseband processor are provided. The single chip may comprise a Bluetooth radio, an FM radio, a processor system, and a peripheral transport unit (PTU). FM data may be received and / or transmitted via the FM radio and Bluetooth data may be received and / or transmitted via the Bluetooth radio. The FM radio may receive radio data system (RDS) data. The PTU may support digital and analog interfaces. A processor in the processor system may time-multiplex processing of FM data and processing of Bluetooth data. The single chip may operate in an FM-only, a Bluetooth-only, and an FM-Bluetooth mode. The single chip may reduce power consumption by disabling portions of the Bluetooth radio during FM-only mode and / or disabling analog circuitry when performing digital processing. Communication between Bluetooth and FM channels may be enabled via the single chip.

A method for radio transmission of audio data from an audio player device for receipt by an RDS capable FM radio receiver, comprising scanning an FM frequency range to detect available radio frequencies on which no broadcast transmissions or interfering signals are currently received; storing detected available frequencies; selecting one of the stored frequencies; receiving audio data from the player; modulating received audio data with FM; and transmitting modulated audio data on the selected frequency. A corresponding electronic device comprises a receiver for scanning an FM frequency range to detect the above-mentioned type of available radio frequencies; a memory device for storing same; a controller for selecting one of the stored frequencies; an audio input interface for receiving audio data from the player; and a transmitter for modulating received audio data with FM and transmitting modulated audio data on a frequency selected by the controller.

In one embodiment, metadata associated with broadcasting entities within a network is augmented with detailed data such as audio files, which may later be retrieved and shared with other users. A mobile terminal having broadcast tuning, audio recording, presence, Internet browsing, and / or Radio Data System (RDS) capability may gather detailed information concerning a broadcast through any one or all of these capabilities. The detailed information is then combined with audio snippets derived either from the RDS data, Internet download, or from audio recording equipment to form metadata enhanced, media files that may be associated with the broadcasting entity. The metadata enhanced media files may be subsequently perused and shared with other users, whereby the audio snippets may be played back to provide the users with enhanced sensory recall of the broadcasting entity.

An apparatus includes means for providing load information, said load information for sending from one of an access node and a relay node associated with said access node to the other of said relay node and access node.

An interface unit is disclosed for facilitating the optimization of a watering system. The interface unit includes a first interface configured to receive optimization data over a radio data system. A second interface is also included, the second interface being configured for electronic communications with a watering system controller that controls operation of a watering system according to watering instructions stored in the watering system controller. The interface unit also includes a processor, the processor being in electronic communication with the first interface and the second interface. Memory is also included. The memory is in electronic communication with the processor, and is programmed with instructions for using the optimization data to modify the watering instructions.

A radio record module includes a radio data system (RDS) decoder module that decodes a received RDS signal, that has an associated audio signal, into received RDS data. A memory module stores a record request, the record request having an RDS parameter. A comparison module compares the received RDS data to the RDS parameter of the record request and asserts a record signal when the received RDS data compares favorably to the RDS parameter. A recording module records the associated audio signal in response to the record signal being asserted.

The invention discloses a multi-network-integration multifunctional digital emergency broadcast machine. The integration includes a single-chip microcomputer, and a signal reception decoding decryption module, a remote wake up processing module, a remote maintenance unit, an automatic priority level processing module, a data detection module, a power amplifier module, a power supply management module, a control instruction and audio signal output module, an LED and LCD control module, an intermediate wave frequency modulation reception module, an FM frequency modulation reception module, a module, a DTMB (Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting) digital television network signal reception module, an IP network signal reception and data return module, a microphone module, an MP3 module, a satellite signal reception module, a RDS (Radio Data System) wired / wireless frequency modulation reception module, a GPRS / GSM / CDMA network communication and data return module, and the like which are connected with the single-chip microcomputer. The multi-network-integration multifunctional digital emergency broadcast machine carries out control data and audio transmission and broadcasting, is suitable for multiple network environments and transmission modes, ensures the high coverage rate, the stability and the broadcasting safety, and achieves multi-priority-level setting.

A playlist on demand is a type of product distribution network (PDN) that provides an easy method for users to access music heard on the radio or in other media. The user may sign up for an online service with a product distribution network (PDN) provider, which may include a customizable streaming playlist. When the user is listening to the radio, he or she may hear a song and want to add it to the playlist, but may not know the song's name, or may not be in a position to easily add that song through an online interface. In that case, the user can send a text message to the PDN provider, which may consist of the call letters or other identifier of a radio station the user is listening to. Alternative methods for sending a message to the PDN provider may include interactive features incorporated into the car stereo or into a standalone Radio Data System (RDS) receiver. When the PDN provider receives the message, it may then determine what song was playing on the station when the message was sent, and may then add the song to the user's playlist.

The invention provides a mobile communication network expansion communication system and method based on big dipper RDSS (radio data system) system, wherein one or a plurality of big dipper base stations nearly the same as the base station on the current mobile communication network are created, the base station is connected with the mobile communication network through a wire link and is connected with a mobile communication network based on a portable mobile communication base station or a wireless communication network formed by wifi route equipment beyond the signal coverage range of the mobile communication network through a big dipper satellite RDSS wireless short message link, and the two networks are used for realizing the short message communication of mobile equipment (cellphone) beyond the coverage range and the mobile equipment (cellphone) within the coverage range of the mobile communication network so as to expand the coverage range of the mobile communication network.

The invention provides a big data system. The system comprises a big data foundation platform, a sharing resource base, a visualized editing and displaying subsystem and a flow dispatching subsystem. The system combines various existing big data processing systems; a specific big data processing system is submitted based on a data processing flow dispatching program resource generated by user edition and a data resource and is used for carrying out data processing, so that the utilization threshold of the big data system is greatly reduced, big data related sources in organizations can be conveniently shared and a data processing flow can be reused and can be taken over.

An apparatus and a method for automatically establishing a new wireless link when the original wireless link between the apparatus and a commercially available FM radio receiver is interfered by other signal sources and reception conditions become poor, thereby eliminating the need to manually configure both the target FM radio receiver and the apparatus to a suitable FM frequency. The apparatus receives an audio signal, modulates and transmits the audio signal to the target FM radio receiver over a selected frequency, scans an FM spectrum for an alternative frequency, transmits an Radio Data System compatible command and a forcible switching signal to configure the target FM radio receiver to tune to the alternative frequency when signal quality of the received signal deteriorate sufficiently.

Systems, devices and methods for providing user access to broadcast content in combination with user access to short-range communication content, such as RFID tag content or the like. A broadcast medium, such as Radio Data Broadcast, that provides for broadcast frequency transmission in unison with other content being carried on alternative frequencies is used to transmit digital broadcast signals that include both broadcast content and short-range communication content. A digital broadcast receiver that is equipped to receive the digital signals will additionally include a short-range communication transponder, such as an RFID tag or the like. The transponder, i.e., tag, will include dynamic updateable memory, such that as digital signals are received with new short-range communication content the information associated with the tag will be updated. The tag allows a reader device to capture and, in many instances, store the tag information for later use.

Multi-radio antenna apparatuses and stations for wireless networks including multiple radios coupled to a single transmit / receive antenna, in which the antenna is highly synchronized by an external (e.g., GPS) signal. These multi-radio antenna systems may provide highly resilient links. Synchronization may allow these apparatuses to organically scale the transmission throughput while preventing data loss. The single transmit / receive antenna may have a single dish or a compound (e.g., a single pair of separate transmitting and receiving dishes) and connections for two or more radios.

A timekeeper equipped with a radio reception device capable of decoding Radio Data System (RDS) information and including a time base, a display for displaying time data supplied by the time base, and an adjustment control for correcting the time data. The radio reception device includes a frequency locking loop for delivering RDS type data derived from a RDS spectrum received on a high-frequency carrier; and a controller which, on the basis of the delivered RDS type data, controls the adjustment control to ensure time setting of the timekeeper. The timekeeper is portable and the radio reception device rejects the spectrum received from a frequency modulated transmitter supplying RDS data, except for the frequency band containing RDS type data.

Systems, devices and methods for providing user access to broadcast content in combination with user access to short-range communication content, such as RFID tag content or the like. A broadcast medium, such as Radio Data Broadcast, that provides for broadcast frequency transmission in unison with other content being carried on alternative frequencies is used to transmit digital broadcast signals that include both broadcast content and short-range communication content. A digital broadcast receiver that is equipped to receive the digital signals will additionally include a short-range communication transponder, such as an RFID tag or the like. The transponder, i.e., tag, will include dynamic updateable memory, such that as digital signals are received with new short-range communication content the information associated with the tag will be updated. The tag allows a reader device to capture and, in many instances, store the tag information for later use.

A radio record module includes a radio data system (RDS) decoder module, that decodes a received RDS signal, that has an associated audio signal, into received RDS data. A record module produces a digital data file from the digital audio signal in response to a record signal. A catalog generation module generates catalog data associated with the digital audio file, the catalog data including an RDS parameter of the received RDS data. A memory module stores the digital audio file and the catalog data.

A demodulation system for Radio Data System (RDS) signals in a receiver includes a quadrature mixer (303) configured to convert a RDS signal at an input frequency directly to a base band RDS signal, a single filter (305) configured to filter the base band RDS signal to provide a RDS signal, and a signal level detector (311) configured to provide an indication of a level of the RDS signal (313), a demodulator (315) configured to demodulate the RDS signal and provide RDS data, the RDS data corresponding to information for user consumption, where the indication is used for selectively interrupting the user consumption when the level of the RDS signal is unsatisfactory. Other aspects of the RDS and corresponding methods include interference mitigation and include a blanker (323) configured to remove impulse noise from a RDS signal to provide the RDS signal without impulse noise and a demodulator (315) coupled to the blanker and configured to demodulate the RDS signal to provide data corresponding to information for user consumption.

A demodulation system for Radio Data System (RDS) signals in a receiver includes a quadrature mixer (303) configured to convert a RDS signal at an input frequency directly to a base band RDS signal, a single filter (305) configured to filter the base band RDS signal to provide a RDS signal, and a signal level detector (311) configured to provide an indication of a level of the RDS signal (313), a demodulator (315) configured to demodulate the RDS signal and provide RDS data, the RDS data corresponding to information for user consumption, where the indication is used for selectively interrupting the user consumption when the level of the RDS signal is unsatisfactory. Other aspects of the RDS and corresponding methods include interference mitigation and include a blanker (323) configured to remove impulse noise from a RDS signal to provide the RDS signal without impulse noise and a demodulator (315) coupled to the blanker and configured to demodulate the RDS signal to provide data corresponding to information for user consumption.

Transmission power in a frequency-hopping radio system that transmits packets from a sending radio unit to a receiving radio unit, wherein each packet includes an address designating the receiving radio unit, is controlled by measuring received signal strength of packets whose addresses were successfully received in the receiving radio unit, regardless of whether other portions of the respective packets were successfully received. An average signal strength value is generated from the received signal strength measurements. The mathematical difference between the average signal strength value and a target value associated with the receiving radio unit is then determined and used as a basis for deciding whether to send a power control message from the receiving radio unit to the sending radio unit. In order to provide a hysteresis in the power control process, a power control message is sent from the receiving radio unit to the sending radio unit if the mathematical difference is greater than a first decision boundary, or if the mathematical difference is less than a second decision boundary. The power control message may itself include the mathematical difference which, when received by the sending radio unit, is used as a basis for determining a transmission power level adjustment amount. The target value, against which the average signal strength value is compared, may be based on the receiver sensitivity adjusted to account for implementation losses and other inaccuracies.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for selecting alternate channels for broadcast radio channels, and for tracking alternate channel selections, are provided. Some radio systems provide alternate frequencies for tuned radio frequencies to use when the tuned radio frequency signal is no longer receivable. In aspects of the present invention, historical information is generated from alternate channel switching attempts. In further aspects, the generated historical information is used to aid in making a subsequent switch to an alternate channel.

The invention relates to a clock calibration method based on an FM (Frequency Modulation) radio data system, which belongs to the field of wireless telecommunication. Each node of a distributed network is in the coverage area of the same FM base station. The method comprises the following steps that: 1) an FM receiving chip is arranged on each node; 2) RDS (Radio Data System) radio data is sent to each node by the FM base station; 3) the FM receiving chip of each node receives and analyzes the RDS radio data in calibration so as to generate an RDS pulse signal; and 4) a local clock is calibrated by each node according to the frequency of the RDS pulse signal so as to realize the time synchronization of each node. The RDS pulse frequency is used as the intermediate frequency to calibrate the local clock of the nodes, reduce communication between the nodes, and save bandwidth and energy consumption, so clock deflection is eliminated, and the effect of clock calibration is achieved.

Devices and methods of generating an alert comprise receiving a broadcast radio transmission at a communication device, wherein the broadcast radio transmission comprises primary content and supplemental content having a relationship to the primary content. Further, the primary content comprises a first audio data, and the supplemental content comprises a non-audio data. The devices and methods further include detecting the receiving of the supplemental content, and generating an alert signal operable to activate an alerting device to output a non-visual notification.

A sequence of unfiltered channel estimation values xk is determined in a method for calculation of filtered channel estimation values dk in radio systems. A specific set of filter coefficients is selected from two or more filter coefficient sets, with the filter coefficients being calculated on the basis of the MMSE optimality criterion for a predetermined recursive digital filter (F). The sequence of unfiltered channel estimation values is then filtered by means of this recursive digital filter (F) using the selected filter coefficients.

A data messaging system is provided utilizing the FM based radio data system that utilizes existing RDS receiver hardware enabled to receive location specific traffic and / or weather information. An extensible markup language (XML) is used to enable the existing hardware capabilities of RDS capable FM radios. Utilization of XML technology will allow RDS display of various applications that are language independent, particularly, real time data messaging of traffic messages generated as XML output.

The invention discloses a method for executing a given operation by a mobile terminal. The method is used for causing mobile handheld equipment to realize a given function or execute the given operation in a part of areas, and is favorable for actual application. The method comprises that: the mobile terminal with a receiver receives a radio data system (RDS) signal in a frequency modulation broadcast signal, and demodulates RDS data information; the mobile terminal determines the specific operation corresponding to the RDS data information according to the RDS data information; and the mobile terminal executes the given operation. The invention also discloses the mobile terminal for executing the method and a communication system.

The present invention relates to a high-speed interface for radio systems, in particular to a synchronous serial digital interface for a car radio. In an embodiment, the synchronous serial digital interface for at least dual radio receiver systems includes a master device and a slave device. The dual radio receiver system has an intermediate frequency. The master device and the slave device exchange data in a bi-directional manner on at least one communication channel; the master device and the slave device have a unique bit clock; the master device supplies a synchronization signal to the slave device. The synchronization signal has a frequency spectrum with an amplitude at the intermediate frequency lower than the amplitudes at the other frequencies of the synchronization signal.

The invention provides a multi-frequency point emergency broadcast realizing method, comprising the steps in sequence as follows: 1, a receiving terminal is provided with a plurality of receiving frequency points in advance, and controls a broadcast module to broadcast according to a pre-set prior sequence; and a broadcast front terminal can realize point-to-point or point-to-face broadcast to each terminal with an assigned and set individual address, so that the interference caused by system external strong common-frequency signals can be effectively prevented; and system encoding has uniformity and security; and 2, a terminal receiving and expanding machine receives digital signals and searches an emergency signal instruction under each frequency, so that the terminal receiving and expanding machine is converted into an emergency frequency to broadcast emergency broadcast. The multi-frequency point emergency broadcast realizing method provided by the invention has the beneficial effects in that the broadcast front end can realize the point-to-point or point-to-face broadcast to the terminal, so that the interference of strong common-frequency signals outsides the system can be effectively prevented, and the system encoding has the uniformity and the security; and RDS (Radio Data System) signal transmission uses a PSK (Phase Shift Keying) modulation manner, so that the signal transmission stability is high, and the transmission rate is high.

The invention discloses a terminal with a music and lyric sharing function. A processing module and a power modulation frequency modulation (FM) chip are integrated in the terminal, wherein the power modulation FM chip has a radio data system (RDS) function; the processing module receives a sharing instruction input by a display, reads audio data and lyric text data indicated in the instruction from a storage, and outputs the audio data and lyric text data to the FM chip; the lyric text data output by the FM chip are received and output to the display for displaying; the FM chip processes the audio data and the lyric text data output by the processing module and then transmits the audio data and lyric text data through an antenna; the antenna receives shared data transmitted by other terminals; and the shared data are processed to acquire and output the audio data to a player for playing, and acquire and output the lyric text data to the processing module. By using the terminal provided by the invention, other terminals nearby with the FM transceiving functions can simultaneously share music and lyric.

A radio record module includes a radio data system (RDS) decoder module that decodes a received RDS signal, that has an associated audio signal, into received RDS data. A memory module stores a record request, the record request having an RDS parameter. A comparison module compares the received RDS data to the RDS parameter of the record request and asserts a record signal when the received RDS data compares favorably to the RDS parameter. A recording module records the associated audio signal in response to the record signal being asserted.