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Non-parametric adaptive power law detector

US6356600B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 21, 1998
Grant dateMar 12, 2002
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Expiry dateApr 21, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S7/527
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system for detecting unknown broadband signals in noise consisting of non-stationary narrowband components and a stationary colored broadband component includes a sensor which collects data in which a signal of interest may be found and generates a received data stream. A preprocessor operates on the received data stream to generate training and detection vectors corresponding to noise only and noise plus signal intervals of the received data stream, respectively. A spectrum processor receives the training and detection vectors and generates cleaned broadband spectrum estimates {tilde over (C)}1(ƒ) and {tilde over (C)}2(ƒ) from the training and detection vectors, respectively, by adaptively separating non-stationary tonal components from the stationary broadband component using modified multiple taper spectral estimation combined with maximum likelihood tonal removal. The cleaned broadband spectrum estimates {tilde over (C)}1(ƒ) and {tilde over (C)}2(ƒ) are passed to a detection processor which detects unknown broadband signals within the received data stream using a power law detection process which operates on normalized (whitened) broadband signals {tilde o…

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