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Pattern diversity to support a MIMO receiver and associated methods

  • US 7,627,052 B2
  • Filed: 01/05/2006
  • Issued: 12/01/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications system comprising:

  • a transmitter configured to transmit M source signals;

    a transmit antenna array connected to said transmitter and comprising M antenna elements for transmitting the M source signals;

    a receive antenna array comprising N antenna elements for receiving at least M different summations of the M source signals, with N being less than M;

    a receiver connected to said receive antenna array and configured to receive the at least M different summations of the M source signals; and

    a signal separation processor connected to said receiver for forming a mixing matrix comprising the at least M different summations of the M source signals so that the mixing matrix has a rank equal to at least M;

    said signal separation processor for separating desired source signals from the mixing matrix based on a knowledge based processing signal extraction process, with the knowledge based signal separation process separating the desired source signals from the mixing matrix based on at least one of a zero forcing (ZF) process, and a minimum mean squared estimation (MMSE) process.

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