Cyntrust Communications, Inc.

Akshaya Trivedi

Robert Joseph McCarty, Jr

Channel induced distortion is cancelled from a QAM or similarly modulated signal that has both a signal component and a distortion component. Using digital signal processing, the information component of the received signal is removed by canceling magnitude variations arising from the information content. This is accomplished by normalizing the received signal to the magnitude value of one ring on the QAM constellation. Once the distortion component of the received signal is reconstructed, a compensation factor can be derived and applied to the received signal in order to remove the effects of the channel distortion prior to further processing and decoding of the received signal. Applications include radio communications including cellular telephones and two way radio, as well as wire-based communications in which the transmission channel induces distortion to the signal

Method and apparatus for tracking the magnitude of channel induced distortion to a transmitted signal

Carrier wave frequency is quickly acquired without burdensome MIPs requirements by limiting the spectral analysis of the incoming channel to the expected band edges. The right and left band edges spectral energy is compared and clock frequency correction is made from the results of this comparison. A band pass filter, such as a Goertzel algorithm filter, is employed to quickly and with processing efficiency perform the spectral analysis at the band edges. Once the direction of the frequency error is derived, the correct frequency can be acquired through a feedback loop employing various iterative correction techniques, such as a gearshift approach in which certain predefined frequency corrections are imposed in decreasing steps until the desired carrier frequency has been acquired.

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Akshaya Trivedi