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Method and apparatus for suppressing interference from bandspread communication signals

US5495497A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 25, 1991
Grant dateFeb 27, 1996
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Expiry dateSep 25, 2011

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/0857
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for suppressing interference from a sence of bandspread communication signals received by a radio receiver. Each sample is defined as a vector having signal and interference vector components. The interference vector component is such that: 1) the interference dominates the signal vector component, and 2) the phase of the interference vector components in the sequence changes slowly with time. Interference is suppressed while a portion of the signal vector component that is normal to the interference vector component is estimated as an indication of the bandspread communication signal. To do this, a phase angle is determined for each sample based upon each sample's defined vector. The phase angle for each sample is transformed into a corresponding phase vector based on a symmetric sampling of phase angles from previous and subsequent received signal samples. All terms of each corresponding phase vector are summed and averaged to generate a corresponding average phase gain for each sample. Each corresponding average phase gain is multiplied by a vector normal to the corresponding sample's defined vector to estimate the signal vector that is normal…

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