Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at separate stations – Distortion – noise – or other interference prevention,...
Patent
1994-07-19
1997-05-13
Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at separate stations
Distortion, noise, or other interference prevention,...
455 523, 455296, H04B 110
Patent
active
056302088
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for using a plurality of correlators to improve an estimate of direct signal arrival time by identifying features of a correlation function at and adjacent to the correlation peak. In a first embodiment, the errors in location of the center point of a correlation function R(.tau.), formed by the incoming composite signal and a stored copy of the expected signal, are assumed to be strongly correlated for narrow sample spacing and wide sample spacing of the correlation function. In a second embodiment, multipath signal strengths and phases are estimated, using multiple sampling of the correlation function R(.tau.). This approach assumes that path delays of the direct signal and of the multipath signals can be determined separately. Path delays can be determined by any of at least three approaches: (1) identification of slope transition points in the correlation function; (2) Cepstrum processing of the received signal, using Fourier transform analysis; and (3) use of a grid of time points on the correlation function domain, and identification of time values, associated with certain solution parameters of the least mean squares analysis that have the largest absolute values, as times of arrival of the direct and multipath signals. Separate identification of multipath time delays reduces the least mean squares analysis to a linear problem. A modified signal is constructed, with the multipath signal(s) approximately removed from the incoming composite signal. This modified signal allows a better estimate of the arrival time of the direct signal.
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Farmer Dominic
Schipper John F.
Eisenzopf Reinhard J.
Schipper John
Sobutka Philip J.
Trimble Navigation Limited
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