Abstract:
Angle-modulated signals are transmitted in a communications system. Coding information is inserted into the data to be transmitted (dk) at regular intervals and phase-modulated together with said data to be transmitted (dk). This coding process is used for pulse shaping so that the receiver (27) can recover the digital data to be transmitted (dk) by processing the signal accordingly without the carrier phase being regulated and therefore, more simply.
Abstract:
A processing system (216) selects (1004) a portion (702-706) of a received signal including an evaluation symbol (702), along with a preceding symbol (704) received immediately before the evaluation symbol, and a following symbol (706) received immediately after the evaluation symbol; and prefixes (1006) to the portion of the received signal a previously estimated symbol (708) received immediately before the portion, thereby producing an evaluation portion (712, 904). The processing system then compares (1008) the evaluation portion with templates equal in length to the evaluation portion and including different combinations of trial symbols and the at least one previously estimated symbol, prefixed to the trial symbols; and estimates (1010) the evaluation symbol to be equal to a trial symbol in one of the templates having a highest correlation with the evaluation portion, the trial symbol having a position matching that of the evaluation symbol in the evaluation portion.
Abstract:
To solve the problems associated with conventional signal strength measurements utilizing homodyne receivers, the present invention is able to economically reduce the idle time power usage of a homodyne receiver by "powering down" a part of the homodyne receiver. With certain signal modulations, the power received in each channel of the homodyne receiver is equivalent and, as a result, th estimated received signal strength measurement calculation is simplified, reducing the power usage, which can be very useful, especially in the mobile communications industry.
Abstract:
A quadrature receiver (10) including a downconverter (22) configured to convert a wireless communication signal into a baseband signal; and an I/Q offset processor (40) coupled with the downconverter (22) and configured to sample the baseband signal to provide plural sampled vectors, to generate a difference vector from the sampled vectors, to generate a scaled vector from the difference vector, and to sum the difference vector, the scaled vector and one of the sampled vectors to provide a direct current offset signal. A method of calculating direct current offset including receiving a wireless communication signal; downconverting the wireless communication signal following the receiving; sampling the wireless communication signal providing plural sampled vectors; calculating a difference vector from the sampled vectors; calculating a scaled vector from the difference vector; and summing the difference vector, the scaled vector and one of the sampled vectors to provide a direct current offset signal.
Abstract:
An approach for demodulating a frequency-modulated signal involves processing a frequency-modulated signal with a phase shifter network to provide a demodulated signal that has a relatively constant amplitude around the center frequency of the frequency-modulated signal and that exhibits a relatively linear phase change over an operational frequency range. Embodiments of the invention include a phase shifter network comprising N number of all-pass filters and a phase shifter network comprising a low-pass bessel filter.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for performing synchronization and DC-offset compensation in FM transmission systems significantly reduce the overhead associated with transmitting a conventional digital preamble at the start of each of a succession of transmitted digital data packets. According to exemplary embodiments, a multi-part digital preamble includes a short, substantially DC-free leading part followed by a code-protected synchronization part which is not necessarily substantially DC-free. The leading part provides for coarse DC offset estimation and synchronization, while the coded synchronization part carries timing and/or other useful information which can be unique for each packet. One or more substantially DC-free trailing parts follow the synchronization part, or are included in the synchronization part itself, and provide for fine tuning of the DC-offset estimate. Since the substantially DC-free leading and trailing parts are extremely short, and since the synchronization part carries useful information, the overhead associated with a preamble according to the invention is significantly reduced as compared to a conventional, entirely DC-free, preamble.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for determining initial carrier and symbol phase estimates in a burst mode digital communication system are described. In-phase and quadrature sample of a BPSK preamble are sampled to obtain correlation values (YE, YO, XE, XO). Next, sum (7, 9, 10) and differences (8, 11, 12) of the correlation values are obtained. Then the initial carrier phase estimate (THETAHAT) and the initial symbol phase estimate (TAUHAT) are obtained through application of an algorithm. The apparatus that implements the method consists of adders (9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17), inverters (7, 8, 15), arc tangent look-up tables (13, 14) and divide by 2 logic units (18, 19).
Abstract:
The present invention provides dc offset compensation circuit (800) for a zero IF FM quadrature demodulator in an AMPS cellular mobile telephone system. A frequency offset is introduced to remove modulation inherent dc components from supervisory audio tones and Manchester codes from a modulated signal. The local oscillator (608) is operated at a frequency that is slightly different, e.g. 5 kHz from a frequency which would mix down the intermediate frequency signal to zero. A dc offset is produced with a control loop to eliminate fixed dc components caused by leakage from a local oscillator (608). After a given time, the control loop may be frozen and the frequency offset of the local oscillator (608) can be removed.
Abstract:
A transmitter is disclosed for transmitting a digital information signal via a transmission medium. The digital information signal can be divided into one or more sub-signals. Each sub-signal is transmitted as a non-encoded or as an encoded signal. In which way the sub-signal is transmitted depends on the compression that can be achieved by the encoder. If the compression is low the sub-signal is transmitted in non-encoded form. For the receiver an identification is added to the composite signal to be transmitted. A first component of the identification signal indicates if one or more sub-signals are transmitted in encoded form. A second component of the identification signal indicates for each sub-signal whether it appears in encoded or non-encoded form in the composite signal. The invention provides a composite signal with a minimal number of bits.
Abstract:
The present invention provides dc offset compensation circuit (800) for a zero IF FM quadrature demodulator in an AMPS cellular mobile telephone system. A frequency offset is introduced to remove modulation inherent dc components from supervisory audio tones and Manchester codes from a modulated signal. The local oscillator (608) is operated at a frequency that is slightly different, e.g. 5 kHz from a frequency which would mix down the intermediate frequency signal to zero. A dc offset is produced with a control loop to eliminate fixed dc components caused by leakage from a local oscillator (608). After a given time, the control loop may be frozen and the frequency offset of the local oscillator (608) can be removed.