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Method for detecting a pulse-usable system

US6229471A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 11, 1999
Grant dateMay 8, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 11, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/0006
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for detecting a pulsed usable signal that particularly includes the highest frequencies and possesses a poor signal/noise ratio. First an analog, frequency-limited input signal that corresponds to the usable signal to be detected is formed from the analog input signal through analog filtering. This signal is then converted into a series of digital phase values through a phase/digital converter. First phase difference values are formed from these digital phase values by parallel or serial signal processing, and second phase difference valves are formed from these first difference values. Absolute values of the second difference values are then supplied via a digital low-pass filter to a comparator having hysteresis. There, an output signal that can be digitally utilized and corresponds to the pulsed usable signal is formed by predeterminable threshold values.

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