Cancellation system for transmitter interference with nearby receiver

• US 4,660,042 A
• Filed: 02/24/1984
• Issued: 04/21/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Litton Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Litton Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Ekstrom, Joel L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tubbesing, T. H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barron, Jr., Gilberto
• Application Number:
  US06/583,196
• Time in Patent Office: 1,152 Days
• Field of Search: 343/5 NQ, 343/18 E, 343/5 PN, 343/17.2 R, 343/17.5 R, 455/296, 455/50, 455/78, 455/79, 455/303, 455/304, 455/295, 455/80, 455/81, 455/82, 342/175, 342/194
• US Class Current: 342/175
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/123 using adaptive balancing or compensation means adaptive filter circuits and algorithms H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver

Abstract

Interference from frequency modulated transmitter signals, such as radar jamming signals, is cancelled in a nearby receiver by orthogonally related cancellation signals derived from the transmitter signal. The cancellation signals are controlled or modulated by corresponding cancellation modulation signals derived from the transmitter frequency modulation signal superposed on weighting signals. The employment of the transmitter frequency modulation signal as part of the cancellation modulation signals reduces cancellation error resulting from differences in frequency dependent delay shift in different transmission paths for the interfering signal and the cancellation signal.

Claims

1. A system for cancelling interference in a receiver input from a nearby transmitter producing a transmitter signal which is frequency modulated by a transmitter modulation signal, the system comprising:

a receiving antenna;

first deriving means for deriving a first signal representative of the transmitted signal;

cancellation signal means for deriving cancellation signals from said first signal, said cancellation signals comprising second and third signals bearing an orthogonal phase relationship therebetween;

second deriving means for deriving a fourth signal representative of the modulation associated with said transmitted signal;

said fourth signal being coupled through variable delay means for incorporating a selectable amount of delay into said fourth signal;

cancellation modulation signal means for deriving cancellation modulation signals from said fourth signal, said cancellation modulation signal means comprising fifth and sixth signals;

first and second modulator means;

second signal and said fifth signal being applied to said first modulator means;

said third signal and said sixth signal being applied to said second modulator means;

first adding means for adding the respective outputs of said first and second modulator means;

subtractor means for subtracting the output of said first adding means and the output of said receiving antenna;

the output of said subtractor being fed to the input of said receiver.

2. A system for cancelling interference as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

sensing means coupled to the output of said subtractor means;

the output of said sensing means being coupled to said fifth and sixth signals via respective third and fourth modulating means.

3. A system for cancelling interference as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

a further output of said sensing means is coupled to said variable delay means.