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comb filter [1 record]

Record 1 2007-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
DEF

A type of filter network that is, in effect, a multiple-bandpass design that passes only frequencies within a number of narrow bands, or provides outputs corresponding to each of its passbands.

OBS

Comb filters are so named because their response characteristics have the appearance of a comb.

Key term(s)
  • comb filtre
  • combline filtre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
DEF

Filtre dont la réponse a la forme d'un peigne.

CONT

Un circuit de séparation des signaux de luminance [...] et de chrominance modulés. Dans le cas de la modulation de fréquence, le filtre en peigne n'est pas utilisable car le spectre n'est pas un spectre de raies à écart de la fréquence de ligne.

OBS

C'est un filtre sélectif qui laisse passer une série de fréquences multiples les unes des autres en atténuant les plages de fréquences intermédiaires.

Spanish

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