Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Noika Corporation

Samuli Pietilä

Harri Valio

Mikko Tapio Kokkonen

David Akopian

Ilkka Kontola

Jari Tapani Syrjärinne

Jari Syrjarinne

Kimmo Alanen

Seppo Turunen

Ari Heikkinen

Vesa T Ruoppila

Ville A Eerola

Tuomo Honkanen

Jari SYRJÄRINNE

A satellite signal receivercomprises a measurement componentadapted to perform measurements on received satellite signals. In order to enable an enhanced handling of the measurements, the receiver further comprises a first processing unitadapted to run a softwarefor controlling the measurement componentbased on received control parameters. In addition, it comprises a first interface componentadapted to receive control parameters via another interface componentfrom another processing unit, adapted to provide the control parameters to the first processing unitand adapted to forward measurement results from the measurement componentvia the other interface componentto the other processing unit

Supporting a satellite based positioning

The invention relates to the acquisition of a code modulated signal, wherein a first set of correlation results for correlations between the code modulated signal and a first replica code with different code phases and a second set of correlation results for correlations between the code modulated signal and a second replica code with different code phases are available. In order to achieve a high sensitivity, results from both sets of correlation results are combined, wherein correlation results used in the combination are selected based on information on a relative difference between a correct code phase for both replica codes. Then, it is determined based on the combination whether at least one of the sets of correlation results comprises a correlation result representing the correct code phase for the first replica code or the second replica code, respectively.

Acquisition of a code modulated signal

A method for determining a boundary of an information element, in which a repetition coded signal transmitted by satellites is received, which signal is modulated with information elements. A group of symbols forms one information element. A group of reference values are formed on the basis of the received signal. Of these reference values at least one vector is formed wherein the number of the elements corresponds to the number of symbols use in the transmission of the information element. A determination vector is formed on the basis of the at least one vector, whereafter the greatest of the elements of the determination vector is searched. The index of said elements indicates the boundary of the information element.

Method for determining a boundary of an information element, a system, and an electronic device

The invention relates to a method for attenuating interferences in a positioning receiver, wherein a signal transmitted by the satellites of a positioning system is received, and the received signal is amplified. In the positioning receiver a noise level of the received signal is determined, the existence of interferences is established on the basis of changes of the determined noise level, and the amplification is controlled on the basis of the noise level of the signal received otherwise than during interference. The invention also relates to an electronic device, wherein the method is applied, as well as to a program, with which the method can be implemented in connection with the positioning receiver.

Method for reducing the effect of interferences in a receiver and an electronic device

The present invention relates to a receiver for receiving a spread spectrum modulated signal, comprising a sampler for forming samples of a received signal, at least one reference code block for generating at least first and second reference codes, and a correlation block. The correlation block forms first and second reference code parts from at least one reference code, and correlates the first reference code part with the sample string to form first correlation part results, and correlates the second reference code part with the sample string to form second correlation part results, wherein the correlations are arranged to be performed at different times and by using the same sample string. The invention also relates to an electronic device comprising a receiver, a module to be used with a receiver, a system comprising a transmitter and a receiver for receiving the transmitted signal, a method and a computer software product.

Reception of a spread spectrum modulated signal

A system architecture for a receiver to process multiple signals on a common carrier frequency from a satellite. The receiver is arranged such that the receiver receives input data transmitted from the satellite. A pilot signal is tracked from the input data using a correlation channel, and a data signal is tracked from the input data using a data code generator operatively connected to the correlation channel. In one embodiment of the invention, the data signal generator creates replica code for the data signal. In another embodiment of the invention, the system can switch between the data signal generator and pilot signal generator based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the incoming signal.

System and method for providing optimized receiver architectures for combined pilot and data signal tracking

The present invention provides a method for a multi-path detection analysis and selectivity of CDMA signals using spread spectrum receivers using a correlation technique. The invention is based on determining by the spread spectrum receiver whether a distortion of a received radio frequency signal, caused by a multi-path component of said received signal, meets a predetermined condition using a pre-selected correlation analysis of said received signal. This invention is generally applicable to global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers and it is particularly useful in GNSS receivers, such as GPS (global positioning system) and Galileo receivers. The important goal of this invention is to provide a simple method for identifying signals that are corrupted by multi-path effects, and can be excluded from position calculation in the GNSS receivers.

Multi-path detection method for CDMA receivers

A positioning receiver is shown having one or more receiving channels for receiving a signal from a positioning station, a controlling element for controlling the reception of the signal from the positioning station, and a clock generator for generating a clock signal for said controlling element. The positioning receiver also has a sampler for taking samples at least first and second sampling rates, and a selector for selecting samples from the samples taken at the at least first and second sampling rates, to be used in the controlling element, for controlling signal reception. Furthermore, the invention relates to a system, a wireless communication device, a module, a method, and a computer software product.

Positioning receiver

The invention relates to determining a correct code phase of a received, code modulated carrier signal using a correlation portion, a frequency compensation portion, a coherent memory and a non-coherent memory. In order to compensate for a code Doppler effect and/or a carrier Doppler drift effect, a mapping portion maps correlation values either to the coherent memory or to the non-coherent memory. Alternatively, the mapping portion maps correlation values stored in the coherent memory or in the non-coherent memory to new positions. The mapping depends on a frequency compensation applied by the frequency compensation portion and elapsed integration time, and/or on a drift of a frequency offset in correlation values output by the correlation portion.

Determination of a code phase

A method for performing reacquisition in a positioning receiver (PR) is described, in which at least one spread spectrum modulated signal is received. In the positioning receiver (PR), a reference signal is formed by using a reference code corresponding to the code used in the modulation of the signal to be received, and a correlation is made between the received signal and the reference signal. The correlation is made in at least a first and a second part, and different correlation times are used in the first part and in the second part. The invention also relates to an electronic device (ED) comprising a positioning receiver (PR) for performing this reacquisition method.

Method for performing reacquisition in a positioning receiver, and an electronic device

A method for performing an acquisition to a code-modulated spread spectrum signal comprises receiving the transmitted signal, sampling the received signal to form samples, forming at least one reference code corresponding to a code used in the modulation and forming a non-coherent search matrix on the basis of said samples. The non-coherent search matrix comprises elements in at least a first and a second dimension. The first dimension of the non-coherent search matrix represents the same frequency deviation but different code phases of the received signal, and the second dimension of the non-coherent search matrix represents the same code phase but different frequency deviations of the received signal. Each element is addressable in the first dimension by a first index and in the second dimension by a second index.

Performing an acquisition in a receiver

A method for supporting a determination of the correlation between at least one received code modulated signal and at least one available replica code is shown. In order to reduce the total memory size required for such correlations, the method comprises storing signal samples of the at least one received code modulated signal with a first rate in a memory. The stored signal samples are then read with a second rate from the memory for determining a correlation between the read signal samples and samples of the at least one available replica code, wherein the second rate is higher than said first rate. The disclosure relates equally to a corresponding electronic device, to a chip for such an electronic device, to a system comprising such an electronic device and to a corresponding software product.

Support of the determination of a correlation

The invention relates to an apparatus supporting an acquisition of a received code modulated signal by determining the correlation between the received code modulated signal and an available replica code sequence at different code phases. It is proposed that the apparatus comprises a first acquisition engine for selecting code phases which are good candidates for being the code phase at which a received code modulated signal and an available replica code sequence have the highest correlation. The apparatus further comprises a second acquisition engine for performing a refined comparison between a received code modulated signal and an available replica code sequence for each code phase selected by the first acquisition engine. The invention relates equally to a corresponding method and to a system comprising such an apparatus and a network.

The present invention provides a method for a flexible multimode operation of spread spectrum receivers, e.g., global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, using a shared circuitry hardware configuration of the receiver for processing of different types of code division multiple access (CDMA) signals. According to said method the receiver utilizes shared channel circuitry to receive signals of different CDMA types providing a flexible multimode operation. The present invention provides a way to select the received signal type for each channel by replacing the dedicated channels with multimode channels suitable to multiple types of receiver signals. The multimode receiver is more flexible to operate in varying reception conditions. By utilizing shared channel circuitry the hardware size is kept small.

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