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Method of detecting and processing pulsed signals in a radio signal

US7336736B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 26, 2002
Grant dateFeb 26, 2008
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Expiry dateJan 25, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B1/1036
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention allows the detection and processing in a radio signal received by a receiver, of any signal of “pulsed” type present in radio signals applied to the input of a radiofrequency receiver, the receiver having an analogue/digital converter for performing the coding into digital on N bits of P successive samples of the analogue signal applied to the input of the receiver and a computer for processing the said digital signals, characterized in that on the basis of a histogram of the rate of occupancy of the digitized samples, graded in ranges Fx of amplitude-increasing sample levels, is determined, from among the ranges Fx, a range Fn onwards of which the total number of digitized samples Nnor contained in the ranges Fn and those below Fn is greater than or equal to a normality threshold Nn, Nn being a number predetermined as a function of the sensitivity of the detection of pulsed signals that one wishes to achieve.

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