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6993097 Demodulation method and demodulator for CPFSK-modulated signals  
In a method for estimating a sequence of input data symbols of a CPFSK-modulated data signal transmitted via a faulty channel, in the course of an ACS operation for calculating a transition metric...
6993100 Burst detector  
A system for detecting a burst in a wireless communications system. A signal strength indicator indicates the strength of an incoming signal representative of incoming packets. A signal strength...
6993098 Method and apparatus for efficient calculating distance metric  
A method and an apparatus for determining the log-likelihood ratio of a received signal. The log-likelihood ratio is determined by calculating distance between the received symbol and closest...
6993070 Method and system of iteratively detecting and decoding received symbols coupled with re-estimation of the coefficients of the transmission channel  
In order to detect and iteratively decode encoded and interleaved symbols, prior to any iteration, a linear estimation (A) of the transmission channel Ĥ (z) 1 is run on the basis of specific...
6980607 Method for decoding a data signal  
A turbo decoder is used in a method for blockwise decoding a data signal that is error protection coded at a transmitter and that is detected in a receiver. The turbo decoder includes two feedback...
6980609 Matched filter, filtering method and digital broadcast receiver using the same  
A digital passband matched filter is automatically adapted to a carrier wave ω in accordance with a frequency offset of the carrier wave, to obtain a passband digital signal having no frequency...
6980606 Device for reconstructing a runlength constrained sequence  
A branch metric calculation unit calculates a set of branch metric values for subsequent samples of the sampled input signal. Each of the set of branch metric values is an indication for the...
6977972 Method of hybrid soft/hard decision demodulation of signals with multilevel modulation  
The performance of forward error correction decoders for digital communication systems can be improved if soft information relating the reliability of the value representing the demodulated signal...
6975839 Apparatus, and associated method, for estimating frequency offset using filtered, down-sampled likelihood polynomials  
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating frequency offset estimation between communication stations operable in a communication system. A likelihood polynomial is calculated and...
6975692 Scaling of demodulated data in an interleaver memory  
In a method of demodulating and decoding an encoded interleaved signal, a received encoded interleaved signal is demodulated, thereby producing soft-decision demodulated output words. Thereafter,...
6973143 Soft-normalizer for a channel decoder  
The invention proposes a device for generating, from incoming signal values (X i,n ), soft-values (Y i,n ) to be input into a channel decoder of a communication device for use in a wireless...
6970522 Data retrieval  
A digital data storage (DDS) system for reading DDS tapes employs a partial response maximum likelihood detection system which utilises redundancy in the 8-10 DC free modulation encoding to reduce...
6970520 Methods and systems for accumulating metrics generated by a sequence estimation algorithm  
Radiocommunication systems, methods and terminals are described wherein metrics associated with MLSE detecting techniques, e.g., using the Viterbi algorithm, are accumulated in a manner which is...
6967598 Reduced complexity multi-turbo multi-user detector  
A reduced complexity Turbo multi-user detector (MUD) processing system in multiple access communications channels that decreases the likelihood of improper decoding of the final values of interest...
6968023 Interference signal canceling apparatus and interference signal canceling method  
Respective threshold value judging units 108 - 1 through 108 - n compare the likelihoods calculated by the corresponding likelihood calculators 106 - 1 through 106 - n with threshold values...
6965652 Address generator for LDPC encoder and decoder and method thereof  
A data transmission system is provided for transmitting user data to and receiving data from a communication channel, comprising a first address generator to generate a first address in accordance...
6963625 Dada decoding  
An arrangement for selecting the largest of a plurality of input currents (pma (k−1), pmb (k−1)) and adding a further current (Ibmk) to the selected current, the arrangement comprising: a...
6961387 Apparatus and method for coding/decoding optimal (11,5) codeword in a mobile communication system  
An apparatus encodes an input information bit stream comprised of 5 bits into a (11,5) codeword comprised of 11 coded symbols. The apparatus comprises a Reed-Muller encoder for encoding the input...
6961392 Joint equalization and decoding using a search-based decoding algorithm  
A method and apparatus for joint equalization and decoding using a search-based decoding algorithm on a channel exhibiting intersymbol interference distortion is described. A sequence of...
6961391 Signal processor used for symbol recovery and methods therein  
A signal processor and method therein that is arranged and constructed to recover a sequence of symbols from a received signal is discussed. The processor includes a symbol selector for selecting a...
6959057 Method of enhancing signal tracking in global positioning system receivers  
A method of enhancing signal tracking in a global positioning system receiver utilizing a frequency banked filter in providing code and carrier tracking loops includes acquiring a continuous time...
6956815 Method and apparatus using pseudo-inverses of linear transformations in multi-carrier modulation receivers and transceivers  
Many communications protocols involve a collection of communication channels collectively forming the dimensions of a finite dimensional vector space, of which at any point in time, only a subset...
6956912 Turbo decoder with circular redundancy code signature comparison  
An iterative turbo decoder and method for error correcting communication signal data are provided. The decoder implements a stopping rule through use of signature codes to determine whether...
6954507 Method for estimating the bit error rate in a radio receiver and corresponding radio receiver  
In a radio receiver, an equalizer generates reliability information in the form of soft decision information indicating probabilities that a data symbol received by the radio receiver is based on a...
6954482 Soft-decision trellis-coded differential frequency-hopped spread spectrum (DFHSS)  
A method and system begin at a random node of a trellis model having a set of at least two axes, wherein one axis corresponds to time and a second axis corresponds to frequency, a set of M states,...
6952457 Method and system for adapting a training period in a turbo decoding device  
A method of processing an information sequence with a decoder is provided. A window within the information sequence is selected. A training period is calculated for the window. At least one...
6952458 Demapping system and method  
A demapping system and method for demapping symbols into bits, is provided. An embodiment of the system comprises a processor, and a memory that is coupled to the processor. The memory comprises a...
6950476 Apparatus and method for performing SISO decoding  
A device and method for performing SISO decoding. The method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a trellis representative of an output of a convolutional encoder, the convolutional encoder has a...
6947503 Method and circuit for synchronizing a receiver for a convolutionally coded reception signal  
A method for synchronizing a receiver for a convolutionally coded reception signal having a sequence of received data symbols includes decoding the convolutionally coded reception signal by means...
6947506 Method and apparatus for improved turbo multiuser detector  
A multi-user turbo decoder combining multi-user detection and forward error correction decoding is disclosed that utilizes iterative decoding of received, interfering signals, and the construction...
6944206 Rate one coding and decoding methods and systems  
Methods and systems are provided for communicating encoded data. L received encoded signal values including soft information are received and transformed to L data symbols. In various embodiments,...
6944234 Coding method and apparatus for reducing number of state transition paths in a communication system  
A communication system is composed of an encoder encoding an input sequence to sequentially generate output codes X 0 , X 1 , . . . , and a decoder decoding the output codes by a MLSD (Maximum...
6944242 Apparatus for and method of converting soft symbol information to soft bit information  
An apparatus for and method of converting soft symbol decision information into soft bit decision information that overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art. The invention is adapted to receive...
6944235 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA COMMUNICATION USING TRELLIS CODED MODULATION OR TURBO TRELLIS CODED MODULATION IN COMBINATION WITH CONSTELLATION SHAPING WITH OR WITHOUT PRECODING WHEN USING CONCATENATED CODING SCHEMES OR WHEN WORKING IN A NON-ERROR FREE OPERATION POINT  
A technique that combines either a trellis coded modulation (TCM) coding scheme or a turbo trellis coded modulation (TTCM) coding scheme with constellation shaping and precoding schemes, and...
6940929 Low-latency high-speed trellis decoder  
A method for decoding a word received at a current time instant into a symbol of a trellis code. The trellis code corresponds to a trellis diagram having N states associated with the current time...
6940928 Method and apparatus for soft-in soft-out turbo code decoder  
Method and apparatus for Soft In Soft Out Turbo Code Decoder. Metrics are received by a decoder having SISO unit(s). The SISO unit computes all the alpha values corresponding to a block of data. Of...
6937684 Phase discriminator with a phase compensation circuit  
A differential phase discriminator includes a phase compensation circuit to compensate for timing drift and error for recovering timing information in a digital phase lock loop. The differential...
6934343 Computing the full path metric in viterbi decoding  
By utilizing an additional counter and monitoring the maximum state metric at each stage, only forward progressing modulo wrap-arounds will occur and these can be counted. After decoding this count...
6931585 Detection in the presence of media noise  
A signal detector to detect data in an input signal. The signal detector includes a Viterbi-like detector to generate a most likely path corresponding to the data in the input signal. A linear...
6928125 Recording state detection system for use in a disk drive  
A recording state detection system includes a Viterbi detection unit, an error calculation unit for calculating error data series representing a difference between each sample data of the...
6928599 Method and apparatus for decoding data  
Decoding an encoded block of data is accomplished by partitioning the block into a first and a second sub-block and performing forward and backward iterative calculations on the sub-blocks in...
6928267 Estimating an indicator for a communication path  
The present invention relates to estimation of a network indicator of a communication path between a first station and a second station in a communication system. A first indicator of the...
6925592 Turbo decoder, turbo encoder and radio base station with turbo decoder and turbo encoder  
In an interleaver for use in a turbo decoder, a deinterleaver, or an interleaver for use in a turbo encoder, an offset is set based on previously determined thresholds in accordance with symbol...
6925107 Decoding method and decoding device for a CDMA transmission system for demodulating a received signal available in serial code concatenation  
A method and a device for decoding for use in a code-division multiple access (CDMA) transmission system for demodulating a received signal available in serial code concatenation, with a two-step...
6922446 Digital transmission system, decoder and decoding method  
A digital transmission system utilizing data coding at the transmitter and data decoding at the receiver, the decoding being iterative, reliability data about soft decisions being calculated for...
6917655 Coding and decoding a signal modified in accordance with the feedback states of an encoder  
A data encoding system includes a modifier, an encoder, and a feedback. The modifier receives a first data stream and modifies the first data stream so as to provide a second data stream. The...
6914948 Media noise post-processor with varying threshold  
A post-processing method and circuit ( 30 ) for correcting media noise errors and producing a corrected recovered data output signal ( 49 ) is disclosed for use in a sampled data read channel of a...
6904559 Error correction method in full response read channels  
The present invention provides an error correction method that is used in full response read channels. This method includes the steps of: obtaining a read signal from a storage medium and...
6904105 Method and implemention of a traceback-free parallel viterbi decoder  
The traceback operation for a Viterbi algorithm can be minimized by producing optimal path values for each state in the trellis, and updating the optimal path values at each state for each symbol....
6904097 Method and apparatus for adaptive signaling in a QAM communication system  
A method and apparatus to adaptively puncture bits within QAM modulated data symbols transmitted in a communication system in order to effect a signaling channel. The method and apparatus utilize...