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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7991815 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for parallel correlation and applications thereof A fast correlator transform (FCT) algorithm and methods and systems for implementing same, correlate an encoded data word (X0-XM-1) with encoding coefficients (C0-CM-1), wherein each of (X0-XM-1) is r... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7454453 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for parallel correlation and applications thereof A fast correlator transform (FCT) algorithm and methods and systems for implementing same, correlate an encoded data word (X0-XM−1) with encoding coefficients (C0-CM−1), wherein each of (X0-XM−1... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7353170 | Noise-adaptive decoding In one aspect the invention is a method for decoding. The method includes receiving encoded data and decoding the encoded data using a noise-adaptive decoder. The data may include first-order Reed-Mueller (FORM) based codes. The data may be based on Complementary Co... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330522 | Complementary code keying (CCK) sequentially decoding apparatus and process thereof An apparatus of sequentially decoding CCK codes includes a series of received signal registers used to respectively temporarily save the received signals, a phase selector used to select one numeral from 1, −1, j or −j respectively for CCK code of each chip to m... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324609 | DC offset cancellation in a direct conversion receiver configured for receiving an OFDM signal An OFDM receiver has a DC offset estimator configured for determining a DC offset, in I and Q components of a received OFDM signal having been output by an analog front end, based on filtering prescribed subcarrier components from a preamble segment of the I and Q c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324433 | Method and apparatus for determining signal quality The present invention is directed to a method, program product, and apparatus that determines a signal quality associated with a symbol modulated signal based on a scalar relationship based on at least one of a comparison of plural correlation candidates for a symbo... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7305213 | Receiver and wireless LAN apparatus in which a received signal is correlated to a reference symbol A receiver comprising: an antenna which receives a radio signal including N possible symbols {c1(n), c2(n), . . . cM−1(n), cM(n)}, an N correlation units which are provided cor... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289914 | Ultrasonic flowmeter and ultrasonic flowmetering method An ultrasonic flowmeter casts an ultrasonic pulse toward a measurement line ML, processes ultrasonic echo signals, and calculates the position and speed of each ultrasonic reflector positioned along the measurement line ML by analyzing the ultrasonic echo signals su... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280608 | Real time dynamic correlator Methods and systems are provided for evaluating electrical characteristics of a transmitter in real time using cross-correlation of a reference signal with a signal transmitted by the transmitter. A code generator is configured to generate reference code and test co... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7170955 | Method and apparatus for accurately detecting presence of a valid signal A method and apparatus for accurately detecting the presence of a valid signal includes processing that begins by determining the energy level of an input signal in real time to produce a real time energy level. The processing then continues by delaying the input by... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7145938 | Apparatus producing continuous stream of correlation values An apparatus includes a plurality of received-signal registers which receive and store therein a plurality of respective received-signal sequences, a selector which selects one of the received signal sequences stored in the received-signal registers, at least one co... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7061975 | Noncyclic digital filter and radio reception apparatus comprising the filter In accordance with the invention, in a nonrecursive digital filter, the number of times each bit of input data passes through a shift register is reduced to save power. Despreading data is sent to a first shift register and a second shift register, each having a num... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7010559 | Method and apparatus for a parallel correlator and applications thereof A fast correlator transform (FCT) algorithm and methods and systems for implementing same, correlate an encoded data word (X0-XM-1) with encoding coefficients (C0-CM-1), wherein each of (X0-XM-1) is r... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6779009 | Enhanced time-shared data correlator architecture and method An enhanced architecture time-shared data correlator for performing a predetermined number of correlation processes. A data shift register receives input data and loads the input data. A reference shift register receives reference data and loads and circulates the r... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6505220 | Method and apparatus for detecting a unique word A signal processing apparatus and method and a provision medium arranged to enable detection of a unique pattern in a short time with high accuracy. A value representing a correlation between an input signal and a reference signal is calculated and the ca... | 01/07/2003 |
| 5848098 | Personal base station extension calling arrangement A base station includes a digital signal processor, the base station operable to communicate with at least first and second wireless terminals using compressed digital signals modulated onto a radio frequency carrier, the base station further operable to ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5848099 | Method and system for testing phase imbalance in QPSK receivers A method or system (10) includes test apparatus (14) for measuring the phase imbalance in a QPSK receiver (12). A signal generator (16) provides a test signal (18) to the receiver (12), which responsively generates I channel data (20) and Q channel data (... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5787128 | Nonlinear signal correlator and method therefor A nonlinear complex signal correlator (129) correlates a complex received signal (123) with a complex reference signal (128) to produce a positive unbiased complex correlation signal (476). The phase component of the received signal (123) and the phase co... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5454005 | Reciprocal mode saw correlator method and apparatus A surface-acoustic-wave correlator for decoding a spread-spectrum signal having a data signal modulated with a plurality of chip sequences and reciprocal-chip sequences. A tapped-delay-line has a plurality of taps defining a tapped-delay-line structure ma... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5448507 | Reduced logic correlator An improved correlator or matched filter for binary coefficients is provided which reduces the amount of logic required to indicate the receipt of a predetermined code word. The matched filter includes a plurality of stages of delay, where the number of s... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5412589 | System for detecting reduced interference time-frequency distribution A system including method and apparatus for determining the energy content in a signal to be analyzed employs, in an apparatus aspect thereof, a sampling element for producing samples of the electrical signal to be analyzed, a local correlator for produci... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5388126 | Baseband signal processor for a microwave radio receiver A baseband signal processor within a radio receiver provides a design which does not materially increase the size and weight or decrease the battery life of the host equipment. A passive analog delay line is used for correlation by analog summing. The tim... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5355389 | Reciprocal mode saw correlator method and apparatus A surface-acoustic-wave correlator for decoding a spread-spectrum signal having a data signal modulated with a plurality of chip sequences and reciprocal-chip sequences. A tapped-delay-line has a plurality of taps defining a tapped-delay-line structure ma... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5212489 | Echo ranging system for detecting velocity of targets using composite doppler invariant transmissions Target velocity and range are measured with high resolution in an echo ranging system (sonar or radar) using composite Doppler invariant signals consisting of at least two segments, such as "rooftop" or "vee" HFM signals, such composite signals having amb... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5142488 | Serial memories operated for re-ordering samples Serial memories are operated so as to reorder samples as they are serially supplied in a pipelined electronics system, such as one for performing matrix multiplications on a chain serial basis. A serial memory comprising (m-1) delay elements and a write m... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5093846 | Signal acquisition using modulation by a preselected code group In the signal acquisition system disclosed herein, frequency, phase and time uncertainties are resolved essentially simultaneously by including a preselected code group in the transmitted signal and by applying the received signal to a differential detect... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4912519 | Laser speckle velocity-measuring apparatus There is provided a laser speckle velocity-measuring apparatus comprising: a semiconductor laser to irradiate the light to a moving object; first and second photo sensing devices whose light receiving points are arranged in the moving direction of the obj... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4779215 | Method and device for measuring by correlation, in real time, the delays between matching electrical signals Plural independent delay lines are connected in parallel and receive a first signal taken from a first point. Samples of the first signal are taken at different sampling frequencies and are respectively stored in the several delay lines. Samples of a seco... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4559606 | Arrangement to provide an accurate time-of-arrival indication for a received signal The arrangement comprises a plurality of correlation means coupled to the received signal with the received signal being clocked into each of the plurality of correlation means by a different one of a plurality of different phased clocks with the differen... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4545027 | Digital adaptive correlating filter An adaptive digital filter employs sequentially connected shift register stages to produce an N-fold correlation of pulses within a pulse train that satisfy search criteria. Once a signal has been acquired, a processor adaptively changes the tolerance len... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4430722 | Method and arrangement for the correlation of two signals Disclosed is a method and apparatus for correlating first and second signals where sampling values of the signals are multiplied together and discrete values of the correlation function are determined. In one embodiment, the signals are sampled at differe... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4414641 | Digital m of n correlation device having increased bit rate A digital m of n correlation device using signal and reference shaft registers, modulo 2 adders, unique 1-bit D/A converters, and single resistor analog summing provides a very fast correlation product for pulse compression modulations such as phase or fr... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4404645 | Correlator A correlator for producing a correlation function by processing input data over a large number of coefficients of the correlation function by time sharing a smaller number of correlation channels, including a temporary storage device for receiving input d... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4400790 | Transversal correlator A segmented, transversal correlator for use in a spread spectrum communications system accurately synchronizes to an incoming spread signal by passively searching for a particular section of a known reference PN code sequence. To achieve correlator length... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4398274 | Within-pulse doppler scanning The invention concerns a method and apparatus for detecting Doppler-shifted waveforms in electrical signals. A replica is derived from the waveform prior to Doppler shift and stored in a storage device as a non-uniform profile having progressively increas... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4392232 | Simplified transversal correlator for MSK and MSK related waveforms A transversal correlator is disclosed for demodulating a phase shift keyed (PSK) signal. The PSK signal is mixed with a local oscillator signal to produce quadrature I-channel and Q-channel signals. The I-channel and Q-channel signals are sampled at a per... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4370726 | Signal correlation means employing charged-coupled device type shift registers A system for correlating a sampled received analog signal against a sampled reference waveform which is approximated by three quantized levels. The three levels are organized to minimize undesirable odd harmonics with the reference and to maximize the cor... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4244029 | Digital video correlator A digital video correlator wherein a reference image and a live image are digitized and compared against each other in a shifting network to determine the correlation or degrees thereof existing between the two images. Fundamentally, the invention include... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4162474 | Yaw-compensated correlating sonar tracking system 1. Apparatus comprising A pair of signal sensors spacially displaced from each other, Means connected to each sensor for quantizing the signals at the output thereof, First and second two-mode reversing switches, each switch having two inputs respectively conn... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161033 | Correlator/convolver using a second shift register to rotate sample values Circular correlator/convolver for discrete sample signals having a first shift register to receive the sample signals in series and a second shift register to receive the sample signals, in parallel, from the first register to circulate these signals in t... | 07/10/1979 |
