Multiplex communications – Generalized orthogonal or special mathematical techniques
Patent
1995-02-02
1998-03-03
Nguyen, Chau
Multiplex communications
Generalized orthogonal or special mathematical techniques
370527, 375206, H04J 1300
Patent
active
057243409
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method are provided for adaptively modulating or combining a first signal with a second signal. A series of values of the first signal are taken and sequentially stored in a shift register. The maximum absolute value of the oldest N values (where N is an integer) stored in the shift register is then determined. Before, during or after that determination, the maximum absolute value of the remaining (newer) series of values of the shift register is also determined. The lesser of those two maximum absolute values is then determined. This lesser maximum absolute value is then multiplied by a gain factor representing the desired gain to produce a scale factor. The gain factor can be a preset constant, or can be based on the steady-state ratio of the power of the second signal to the power of the first signal. The second signal is then multiplied by the scale factor to produce a scaled signal. Meanwhile, the first signal has been delayed by an amount representative of the total time duration of the first N values in the shift register, or of the total time needed to obtain those first N values, or of the duration of the portion of the signal represented by those first N values. Considering the two peaks separately, combined with using this delay, in effect enables the resulting amplitude tracking to consider prospective as well as past values of the first signal. The scaled signal is then added to the delayed first signal. The amplitude of the scaled second signal thereby tracks the amplitude of the corresponding portion of the first signal, so that the scaled second signal cannot be readily detected unaided during any relatively low amplitude portion of the first signal.
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Jones Robert V.
Saggio Richard J.
Zscheile, Jr. John W.
Nguyen Chau
O'Rourke John F.
Sowell John B.
Starr Mark T.
Unisys Corporation
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