Abstract: A method is provided for receiving a multicarrier signal in a receiver implementing at least two distinct reception channels. After receiving the multicarrier signal during a first step, and in order to optimize subsequent processing (such as synchronization, confidence computing, . . . ), information representing the reception quality is associated to each corresponding reception channel during a second step. An embodiment of the disclosure relies on a new way of computing this information, called absolute confidence, which takes account on the one hand of the reception quality of the considered channel compared to the other channels (total confidence) and on the other hand of the reception quality of each source data (carrier) compared to the others, in the considered channel (relative confidence), to determine an absolute confidence for each data of each channel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the reception of a multicarrier signal formed by a plurality of carrier frequencies, implementing at least two reception channels supplied with data streams, each of said channels conveying the same source data, each of said channels associating an estimated channel value and a corresponding piece of information on channel confidence with each piece of source data received, to feed combination means followed by decoding means. The method implements a processing operation that takes account of at least one piece of information representing the reception quality on each of said channels, to optimise at least one step of said reception.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scratch pad memory system having a table of contents for identifying program material recorded on a magnetic tape in a cassette or cartridge with program material being recorded or changed responsive to user command. The scratch pad memory system comprising an address register, a read only storage, and having an interface for read/write storage and a text displaying terminal coupled to a television receiver for display of program material.

Abstract: Television system using a marking code superimposed on a picture.According to the invention, this code is constituted by a strip located in the right-hand part of the picture and formed by a periodic sequence of white and black areas constituting a clock and by a strip located in the left-hand part of the picture and formed by a sequence of white or black areas constituting the actual code. A decoder detects the presence of clock signals and compares the code received with stored codes.