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Apparatus and method for detecting signals

US5465405A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 2, 1994
Grant dateNov 7, 1995
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Expiry dateNov 2, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S7/292
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A circuit to improve the sensitivity of a receiver by more than 3 dB. According to the invention, conventional predetection integrators are replaced by a circuit to compute the correlation of the received signal with a delayed version of the received signal. The time delay is selected such that the noise in the signal and the delayed signal are statistically independent.

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