Method and apparatus capable of quickly identifying an unknown system even on occurrence of a plurality of dispersive portions
First Claim
1. A method of identifying an unknown system by the use of an adaptive filter having a plurality of taps assigned with consecutive tap numbers divided into a plurality of groups, said adaptive filter being supplied with a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which exhibits an impulse response resulting from said unknown system, said impulse response being specified by a plurality of dispersive portions and a plurality of flat delay portions, the method comprising the steps of:
- preparing first through K-th subadaptive filters which is obtained by dividing said adaptive filter and each of which has the taps having group tap numbers of each group; and
successively identifying at least one of the dispersive and the flat delay portions in said impulse response by successively controlling each of the first through the K-th subadaptive filters.
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Abstract
In an identification apparatus for identifying an unknown system in response to a transmission input signal and an echo signal which includes multiple echoes sent through the unknown system, a plurality of adaptive filters each of which has a plurality of taps are supplied with the transmission signal in parallel to individually identify the multiple echoes by successively modifying tap coefficients in each adaptive filter. Information is transmitted from a j-th adaptive filter to a (j+1)-th adaptive filter to identify each of the multiple echoes. Each adaptive filter monitors modification times of tap coefficients or ERLE. Alternatively, a step size is changed from one to another to be delivered to tap coefficient generators and to accomplish high speed convergence.
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1. A method of identifying an unknown system by the use of an adaptive filter having a plurality of taps assigned with consecutive tap numbers divided into a plurality of groups, said adaptive filter being supplied with a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which exhibits an impulse response resulting from said unknown system, said impulse response being specified by a plurality of dispersive portions and a plurality of flat delay portions, the method comprising the steps of:
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preparing first through K-th subadaptive filters which is obtained by dividing said adaptive filter and each of which has the taps having group tap numbers of each group; and successively identifying at least one of the dispersive and the flat delay portions in said impulse response by successively controlling each of the first through the K-th subadaptive filters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of identifying an unknown system by the use of an adaptive filter having a plurality of taps assigned with consecutive tap numbers, said adaptive filter being supplied with a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which exhibits an impulse response resulting from said unknown system, said impulse response being specified by a plurality of dispersive portions and a plurality of flat delay portions, the method comprising the steps of:
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modifying tap coefficients of the taps by the use of a first step size until said tap coefficients are modified to obtain primary modified tap coefficients; thereafter modifying the primary modified tap coefficients by the use of a second step size greater than said first step size to obtain secondary modified tap coefficients; and successively identifying at least one of the dispersive and the flat delay portions in said impulse response by using the primary and the secondary modified tap coefficients. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. An identification apparatus for use in identifying an unknown system by responding to a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which includes an impulse response of an echo signal specified by a plurality of dispersive portions and a plurality of flat delay portions, said identification apparatus comprising:
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first through K-th adaptive filters which are supplied with said transmission input signal in parallel and a feedback signal and each of which identifies at least one of the dispersive portions to produce first through K-th identification signals representative of results of identification in the first through the K-th adaptive filters; an adder circuit supplied with said first through said K-th identification signals for summing up said first through said K-th identification signals to produce an echo replica signal representative of a replica of said echo signal; a subtracter for subtracting said echo replica signal from said echo signal to produce an error signal; and means for supplying said first through said K-th adaptive filters with said error signal as said feedback signal. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An identification apparatus for use in identifying an unknown system by responding to a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which includes an impulse response of an echo signal to produce an identification signal representative of a result of identification, said identification apparatus comprising:
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a delay circuit, which defines a first predetermined number of taps and which is supplied with said transmission input signal, for successively delaying said transmission input signal to produce successively delayed signals through the taps, respectively, said taps being assigned with consecutive tap numbers; a path switch supplied with a path switching control signal and connected to said taps for selecting the taps of a second predetermined number smaller than said first predetermined number to selectively produce the successively delayed signals of the second predetermined number; coefficient calculation means of the second predetermined number connected to said path switch and supplied with the second predetermined number of the successively delayed signals and said error signal for calculating tap coefficients of the second predetermined number; production means connected to said path switch and said coefficient calculation means for producing the identification signals; and a tap controller connected to said path switch and said coefficient calculation means for supplying said path switch and said coefficient calculation means with a path switch control signal and a coefficient control signal to make said path switch switch the taps from one to another in response to said path switch control signal and to make the coefficient calculation means modify the tap coefficients in accordance with said coefficient control signal, respectively; said tap controller comprising; coefficient control signal producing means for selectively producing the coefficient control signal which represent a selected one of a first step size and a second step size greater than said first step size. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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25. A method of identifying an unknown system by the use of an adaptive filter having a plurality of taps which are assigned with consecutively tap numbers and which are divisible into active and inactive taps, said method comprising the steps of:
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classifying said taps into a plurality of tap control subgroups; preparing a plurality of queue memories which are in one-to-one correspondence to said tap control subgroups and which are for memorizing, in the form of queues, inactive tap numbers of the inactive taps which belong to the tap control subgroups, respectively; selecting, as a selected tap control subgroup, one of the tap control subgroups that includes the inactive tap numbers memorized in the corresponding queue memory; and successively modifying tap coefficients of the selected tap control subgroup by the use of a step size determined by active tap information related to each of tap coefficients assigned to the active taps.
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26. An identification apparatus for use in identifying an unknown system by responding to a transmission input signal and a reception input signal which is sent through said unknown system and which includes an impulse response of an echo signal, said identification apparatus producing an identification signal representative of a result of identification and comprising:
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a delay circuit, which defines a first predetermined number of taps divided into a plurality of subgroups and which is supplied with said transmission input signal, for successively delaying said transmission input signal to produce successively delayed signals through the taps, respectively, said taps being assigned with consecutive tap numbers and classified into the subgroups each of which includes active and inactive taps; a path switch supplied with a path switching control signal and connected to said taps for selecting the taps of a second predetermined number smaller than said first predetermined number to selectively produce the successively delayed signals of the second predetermined number; coefficient calculation means of the second predetermined number connected to said path switch and supplied with the second predetermined number of the successively delayed signals and said error signal for calculating tap coefficients of the second predetermined number; production means connected to said path switch and said coefficient calculation means for producing the identification signal; and a tap controller connected to said path switch and said coefficient calculation means for supplying said path switch and said coefficient calculation means with a path switch control signal and a coefficient control signal to make said path switch switch the taps from one to another in response to said path switch control signal and to make the coefficient calculation means modify the tap coefficients in accordance with said coefficient control signal, respectively; said tap controller comprising; monitoring means for monitoring active tap information determined by the tap coefficients of the active taps in each subgroup; varying means coupled to said monitoring means for varying a step size with reference to said active tap information; and supplying means for supplying said step size to the coefficient calculation means to modify the tap coefficients. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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Specification