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Overlapping windowing mechanism utilizing transmit waveform extensions

US6665352B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 4, 2002
Grant dateDec 16, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 4, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/03834
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A novel and useful windowing mechanism for reducing the out of band harmonics of an output transmit signal. The windowing mechanism functions to smooth the transition between two consecutive transmit waveforms. The mechanism of present invention is particularly useful in communication systems characterized by consecutively transmitted symbols whereby the concatenation of transmitted waveforms causes discontinuities between symbols. The windowing mechanism is operative to reduce the effect of these discontinuities to reduce out of band harmonics of the transmitted output signal. The windowing mechanism extends each transmit waveform both earlier and later in time thus creating extending waveform portions on either end of the transmit waveform. The extended portions are then multiplied by a suitable windowing function and the result is summed with the next transmit waveform.

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