COMMUNICATION AND REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS WITH SIGNALS CODED WITH PERFECT CODES

• US 20100109929A1
• Filed: 01/11/2008
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inverpolis Oy
• Original Assignee: Inverpolis Oy
• Inventors: Lehtinen, Markku Sakari
• Application Number:
  US12/448,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20100109929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/173
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/288 phase modulated
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/95 for meteorological use
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/2886 using I/Q processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/00 Code division multiplex systems for frequency hopping H04B1/713
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A code for signal transmission is a so-called perfect code with zero sidelobes in its autocorrelation function if and only if the modulus of the Fourier transform of said code is equal to 1. A communication device equipped for communications with perfect codes is one, a code source of which outputs a perfect code. A remote sensing device equipped for remote sensing with perfect codes is one, a code source of which outputs a perfect code.

Claims

1. An electronic device for outputting a code, characterized in that the electronic device is configured to output a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.

2. An electronic device according to claim 1, characterized in that as said finite sequence of elements it is configured to output a finite subset of an infinite sequence of at least one of the following kinds:

3. An electronic device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a code source configured for use in a communication device that implements coded communications with other communication devices.

4. An electronic device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a signal source configured for use in a remote sensing device that transmits a coded transmission signal towards a target.

5. A communication device adapted to implement coded communications with at least one other communication device, characterized in that it comprises:

at least one of a transmitter and a receiver configured to use a code to implement coded communications, and

a code source configured to provide said at least one of a transmitter and a receiver with a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.

6. A communication device according to claim 5, characterized in that as said finite sequence of elements said code source is configured to provide said at least one of a transmitter and a receiver with a finite subset of an infinite sequence of at least one of the following kinds:

7. A remote sensing device adapted to transmit a coded transmission signal towards a target, characterized in that it comprises:

a transmitter, and

a transmission signal source configured to provide said transmitter with a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1;

wherein said transmitter is configured to use said code to transmit a coded trans-mission signal.

8. A remote sensing device according to claim 7, characterized in that as said finite sequence of elements said transmission signal source is configured to provide said transmitter with a finite subset of an infinite sequence of at least one of the following kinds:

9. A method for producing a code, characterized in that the method comprises producing a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.

10. A method according to claim 9, characterized in that the method comprises:

producing a discrete Fourier transform of a starting point code,

producing a modulus of said discrete Fourier transform, and

producing said code as a finite subset of an infinite sequence of elements of the following kind;

11. A method according to claim 9, characterized in that the method comprises:

producing a starting point code, and

producing said code as a finite subset of an infinite sequence of elements by performing a number of iterations of the following kind;

12. A method for transmitting an encoded message, characterized in that it comprises:

representing a message to be transmitted in the form of a sequence of symbols,

encoding said sequence of symbols by convolving it with a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1, to produce an encoded message, and

transmitting said encoded message.

13. A method according to claim 12, characterized in that said convolving comprises convolving said sequence of symbols with a finite subset of an infinite sequence of elements of at least one of the following kinds:

14. A method for receiving and decoding an encoded message, characterized in that it comprises:

receiving an encoded message in the form of a sequence of encoded symbols,

decoding said sequence of encoded symbols by convolving it with a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.

15. A method according to claim 14, characterized in that said convolving comprises convolving said sequence of encoded symbols with a finite subset of an infinite sequence of elements of at least one of the following kinds:

16. A method for remotely sensing a target, characterized in that it comprises transmitting a coded transmission signal towards a target, which coded transmission signal comprises a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.

17. A method according to claim 16, characterized in that said finite sequence of elements is a finite subset of an infinite sequence of at least one of the following kinds:

18. A computer program product for producing a code, characterized in that the computer program product comprises machine-readable instructions which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to produce a finite sequence of elements, which finite sequence of elements constitutes a code that with a predefined numerical accuracy is equal to an infinite sequence of elements that has the characteristic that the modulus of the Fourier transform of said infinite sequence of elements is equal to 1.