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1 Digital Audio Receiver

Satellite digital audio broadcast (DAB) systems area relatively new area of audio broadcast
technology. Satellite DAB systems allow audio stations to broadcast to listeners thousands of
miles away through the use of satellites, terrestrial repeaters and DAB audio receivers.

As providers of satellite audio service enter the field, different approaches to audio receiver
architecture have been undertaken. One approach (by XM and SIRIUS in the United States),
is the use of proprietary protocol stacks, satellite spatial diversity and Lucent’s PERCEPTIVE
AUDIO CODING (PAC) or Coding Technologies CtaacPlus audio compression standard.
Another approach (by World Space and its Afristar satellite), also uses a separate custom
protocol that is not compatible With Eureka terrestrial DAB receivers.

An audio receiver for a satellite audio broadcasting system may include Two Radio Frequency
(“RF”) Tuner Systems and A Single Base Band Decoding Chip. The two RF tuner systems
may be configured to filter and down-convert signal from at least one antenna from both
terrestrial and satellite signals. The single base band decoding chip configured to process at
least two channel decoding functions to combine streams from each of the two RF tuner system
and extract useful information for presenting to a user interface.

The invention is illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the accompanying figures
in which like numeral references refer to like elements, and wherein:

Picture 1. Exemplary block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a digital audio receiver.

Picture 2. Exemplary block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a digital audio broadcast
system.
A digital audio receiver architecture is described. The digital audio receiver may include a
“software-driven” dual mode digital audio receiver. In the following detailed description,
numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the
invention. However, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that these specific
details need not be used to practice the invention. In other instances, well known structures,
interfaces, and processes have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure unnecessarily
the invention.

1.2 Audio Receiver in A Communication System

In aspects of audio receiver, includes: A Digital Demodulator Configured to demodulate a

wireless communication signal into a digital audio signal; A Digital
Expandor Configured to expand the dynamic range of said
digital audio signal; A Digital To Analog Converter Configured
to convert the expanded digital audio signal into an analog
audio signal; and the digital demodulator, the digital expan
dor and the digital to analog converter are integrated in one
integrated circuit.

In another aspect, an audio communication system includes: an audio transmitter configured

to convert an analog
audio signal to a digital audio signal, to compress the dynamic
range of said digital audio signal in a compressor, and to
modulate the compressed digital audio signal into a wireless
communication signal; and an audio receiver configured to
demodulate the wireless communication signal into a digital
audio signal, to expand the dynamic range of the digital audio
signal in a expandor, and to convert the expanded digital
audio signal into an analog audio signal.

Picture 3. Schematic Diagram Showing The Working

Principle of The Digital Expandor in The Audio Receiver According to One Embodiment.

(Picture 3) If the amplitude of the input signal for

the digital expandor Ain, the amplitude of the output signal
Aout, and the gain of the digital compressor G satisfy the
following relationship:
Aout = Ain x G
1.3 Audio Reciever in Digital Audio Processing

A compressed digital audio signal is transmitted from an audio source along a connection wire
to an audio receiver. The digital audio signal can encode digital audio data having different
sampling frequencies, frames sizes, and other information. The audio receiver that receives the
digital audio signal can decode and convert the compressed digital audio, signal into multiple
synchronized analog signals, which are used to drive multiple speakers. The audio receiver
may also synchronize the audio data with associated video data so that the audio playback and
video playback are “in sync”, despite delay introduced by the audio signal decoding at the
audio receiver.

Implementations described and claimed herein address the foregoing problems by transmitting
metadata and other decoding properties with the audio data to allow an audio receiver to
properly decode and supplement the transmitted audio. A frame size property allows a decoder
to support adjustable frame sizes and, therefore, adjustable compression levels. A sampling
frequency property allows the decoder to support multiple sampling rates. Other metadata
transmitted with the audio data allows the decoder to extract associated information about the
audio content, including song title, song author, album title, and song lyrics. Using these and
other features, a digital audio source can generate digital audio with a wide variety of properties
and supporting information and then transmit the digital audio and other information over a
digital connection to an audio receiver. These features also alloW the audio receiver to provide
more sophisticated decoding and a richer audio experience.

Picture 4. Illustrates n exemplary personal computing system

serving multi-channel audio to a multimedia system.

Picture 5. An exemplary modules for encoding an

audio signal.
Picture 6. Illustrates a structure of an exemplary S/PDIF burst.

Picture 7. Illustrates a system that may be useful in implement

ing the described technology.