Digital television signal processing system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A system is provided for filtering and demodulating digital color mixture signals wherein the, signals are filtered to remove out-of-band noise prior to completion of the demodulation process. Interleaved digital chrominance signal samples are first demodulated by a signal related in frequency to the video subcarrier to obtain interleaved color mixture signal samples of different sampling phases at baseband frequencies. The interleaved color mixture signal samples are applied to a digital filter at a rate which is a multiple of the color subcarrier frequency. The weighting coefficients of the filter are selected to obtain a bandwidth which passes the color mixture signal while removing out …