Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for signal propagation using unwrapped phase
First Claim
1. A method for the processing of an electromagnetic input signal comprising the steps of:
- producing a bounded phase signal from said input signal; and
producing an unwrapped phase difference signal from said bounded phase signal.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for processing an electromagnetic input signal in which processing circuitry may be used to produce a bounded phase signal, such as by calculating an n-bit 2'"'"'s compliment number in the range of [−1, 1] from phase sample information for an input wave; and producing an unwrapped phase difference signal from the bound phase signal, such as by taking a 2'"'"'s compliment subtraction using another wrapped phase signal from previous phase sample information. A corrected phase signal may also be used by taking a 2'"'"'s complement addition using the bounded phase signal, wherein the unwrapped phase difference signal is produced using the corrected phase signal.
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32 Claims
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1. A method for the processing of an electromagnetic input signal comprising the steps of:
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producing a bounded phase signal from said input signal; and
producing an unwrapped phase difference signal from said bounded phase signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for processing sample information for an input signal to generate a phase signal from an unwrapped phase difference signal for inputting into a phase modulator, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving said sample information;
scaling said sample information and producing a wrapped phase signal for said sample; and
determining said unwrapped phase difference signal by;
determining the difference between said wrapped phase signal and another wrapped phase signal produced from a previous sample and producing a wrapped phase difference signal; and
wherein said unwrapped phase difference signal is said wrapped phase difference signal when said wrapped phase difference signal is less than or equal to π
, and said unwrapped phase difference signal is said wrapped phase difference signal plus the sign of said another wrapped phase signal multiplied by 2π
otherwise. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for processing sample information for an input signal to generate a phase signal from an unwrapped phase difference signal for inputting into a phase modulator, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving said sample information;
determining an n-bit 2'"'"'s compliment number in the range of [−
1, 1] from said sample information and producing a wrapped phase signal for said sample; and
determining said unwrapped phase difference signal by taking a 2'"'"'s compliment subtraction using said wrapped phase signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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- 17. An apparatus for processing an electromagnetic input signal comprising processing circuitry producing a bounded phase signal from said input signal and producing an unwrapped phase difference signal from said bounded phase signal.
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24. A signal transmitter comprising:
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baseband processing circuitry for processing an input signal to generate sample information containing amplitude and phase sample information for said input signal;
phase processing circuitry for receiving said phase sample information determining a wrapped phase signal for said phase sample information using an n-bit 2'"'"'s compliment number in the range of [−
1, 1];
determining an unwrapped phase difference signal by taking a 2'"'"'s compliment subtraction using said wrapped phase signal and another wrapped phase signal from previous phase sample information;
determining a phase signal from said unwrapped phase difference signal;
phase modulating circuitry for modulating a carrier wave using said phase signal to produce a phase modulated signal; and
amplifying circuitry for regulating said phase modulated signal using said amplitude sample information to generate an output signal for transmission by said transmitter. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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