Abstract: In order to suppress noise due to reflected outgoing signals in a telephone receiver of a system for the bidirectional transmission of digitized voice signals over a two-wire telephone line connected by a hybrid coil to an outgoing section and an incoming section of a subscriber station or of an exchange, a shift register loaded with several (e.g. five) consecutive transmitted bits from the outgoing section addresses the cells of a memory containing the digitized amplitudes of corrective signals assigned to the several bit combinations which may be present at any time in that register. The corrective signal read out from the memory during each bit period is subtracted in the incoming section from an arriving signal and the result is fed on the one hand to a receiver and on the other hand to an algebraic adder as a modifying signal incrementing or decrementing, if need be, the contents of the corresponding cell during a writing interval which is a small fraction of a bit period.

Abstract: A terminal of a digital telecommunication system working in a so-called "ping-pong" mode, with alternate reception and transmission of data words in respective halves of a recurrent operating cycle, has a phase-lock circuit whose oscillator is stabilized by a control signal periodically extracted from an incoming bit stream during the data-receiving phases. The receiving section of the terminal has a branch obtaining incoming bipolar data words from an input/output transformer and converting them, with the aid of a peak detector and an integrator or a monoflop, into respective timing pulses whose leading edges recur with the same periodicity as the data words.