Demodulation using a time domain guard interval with an overlapped transform
First Claim
1. A method for signal demodulation comprising the steps of:
- providing a radio frequency (RF) time domain signal on a transmission channel, the RF signal comprising a band-limited data signal modulated on an RF carrier, the data signal comprising a plurality of transmission blocks of data;
providing a time domain guard interval attached to each transmission block in the transmitted signal;
demodulating the RF signal to baseband as an in-phase (I) data signal and a quadrature (Q) data signal;
capturing a first block of I data;
capturing a first block of Q data;
performing a complex discrete Fourier transform on the captured first I and Q data blocks;
determining an inverse channel response for the transmission channel;
multiplying the inverse channel response by the complex discrete Fourier transform of the guard-interval protected first I and Q data blocks to generate a frequency domain product signal;
performing an inverse Fourier transform on the product of the multiplying step to generate a first equalized time domain signal; and
discarding a first portion of the first equalized time domain signal while retaining a second portion of the first equalized signal.
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Abstract
A system and method for demodulation of an RF signal on a transmission channel is provided. The RF signal is demodulated to baseband as an in-phase (I) data signal and a quadrature (Q) data signal. A first block of I data is captured and a first block of Q data is captured. A time domain guard interval is provided in the captured first blocks of I and Q data. A complex discrete Fourier transform is performed on the captured first I and Q data blocks. An inverse frequency response for the transmission channel is determined. The inverse frequency response is multiplied by the complex discrete Fourier transform of the guard-interval protected first I and Q data blocks to generate a frequency domain product signal. An inverse Fourier transform on the product of the multiplying step is performed to generate a first equalized time domain signal. In a preferred embodiment, the method also includes using an overlapped Fourier transform and discarding a first portion of each equalized time domain signal.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for signal demodulation comprising the steps of:
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providing a radio frequency (RF) time domain signal on a transmission channel, the RF signal comprising a band-limited data signal modulated on an RF carrier, the data signal comprising a plurality of transmission blocks of data; providing a time domain guard interval attached to each transmission block in the transmitted signal; demodulating the RF signal to baseband as an in-phase (I) data signal and a quadrature (Q) data signal; capturing a first block of I data; capturing a first block of Q data; performing a complex discrete Fourier transform on the captured first I and Q data blocks; determining an inverse channel response for the transmission channel; multiplying the inverse channel response by the complex discrete Fourier transform of the guard-interval protected first I and Q data blocks to generate a frequency domain product signal; performing an inverse Fourier transform on the product of the multiplying step to generate a first equalized time domain signal; and discarding a first portion of the first equalized time domain signal while retaining a second portion of the first equalized signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for demodulating a signal transmitted over a channel comprising the steps of:
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determining an inverse frequency response of the channel; digitizing the transmitted signal; dividing the transmitted signal into a plurality of discrete blocks, wherein each of the blocks overlaps two adjacent blocks and each portion of the transmitted signal appears in two adjacent blocks; transforming each block using a Fourier transform; multiplying each transformed block by the inverse frequency response to generate a frequency domain product signal; and performing an inverse Fourier transform on the frequency domain product signal to generate an equalized time domain signal; discarding the first portion of the equalized time domain signal for each of the blocks; and combining the retained portion of each of the blocks to form a composite time domain filtered, signal. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A system for transmission of a signal comprising:
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a communication channel; a transmitter transmitting a time domain signal on the communication channel; a receiver receiving the signal after it has passed through and been distorted by the communication channel; means in the receiver for determining an inverse frequency response of the channel; a capture circuit for capturing overlapping time domain blocks of the received signal; a transform circuit performing a transformation process on each of the captured time domain blocks so as to transform each time domain block to a frequency domain block; a multiplier circuit coupled to multiply each frequency domain block by the inverse frequency response to generate a filtered frequency domain block; an inverse transform circuit performing an inverse transformation process on each of the filtered frequency domain blocks so as to transform each filtered frequency domain block into a filtered time domain block; a selector coupled to discard a first portion of each filtered time domain block and retain a second portion of each time domain block; and a combining circuit coupled to combine the retained portions of each of the filtered time domain blocks. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A demodulating apparatus for a television signal comprising:
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an input for receiving a television signal from a communication channel; a block capture circuit coupled to sequentially capture overlapping time domain blocks of the received television signal such that each of the captured blocks includes a time domain guard interval; a Fourier transform circuit receiving each of the overlapping blocks and outputting a frequency domain block for each of the overlapping time domain blocks; an adaptive equalizer coupled to receive the frequency domain blocks from the Fourier transform circuit and output an equalized frequency domain block for each received frequency domain block; an inverse Fourier transform circuit coupled to the output of the adaptive equalizer and generating a filtered time domain block for each of the equalized frequency domain blocks; and a selector for discarding a first portion of each of the filtered time domain blocks and combining a remainder portion of each of the filtered time domain blocks into a ghost canceled demodulated signal. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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