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Decoder with soft decision combining

US7864893B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 25, 2007
Grant dateJan 4, 2011
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Expiry dateAug 1, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L1/0045
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A receiver including first circuitry configured to combine corresponding soft decision values from at least two groups of RDS/RBDS data transmitted as part of a broadcast channel to generate a set of combined values and second circuitry configured to identify a subset of the combined values that indicate a relatively constant subset of the received values from the at least two groups of the RDS/RBDS data is provided.

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