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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2014
Applicants:

Michael Mclaughlin, Dublin, IE;

Billy Verso, Maynooth, IE;

Tony Proudfoot, Bray, IE;

Inventors:

Michael McLaughlin, Dublin, IE;

Billy Verso, Maynooth, IE;

Tony Proudfoot, Bray, IE;

Assignee:

Decawave, Ltd., Dublin, IE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/7097 (2011.01); H04B 1/7163 (2011.01); H04B 1/709 (2011.01); H04B 1/7073 (2011.01); G06F 17/15 (2006.01); H03D 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/7097 (2013.01); H04B 1/709 (2013.01); H04B 1/7073 (2013.01); H04B 1/71637 (2013.01); G06F 17/15 (2013.01); H03D 3/00 (2013.01); H04L 27/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an ultra-wideband ('UWB') receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, a stream of estimates of the channel impulse response ('CIR') are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise. The time of arrival of the first arriving path is developed from the stream of CIR estimates.


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