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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2018
Applicant:

Decawave, Ltd, Dublin, IE;

Inventors:

Michael McLaughlin, Dublin, IE;

Dries Neirynck, Dublin, IE;

Ciaran McElroy, Dublin, IE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/7163 (2011.01); G01S 3/46 (2006.01); H04B 1/7183 (2011.01); G01S 3/48 (2006.01); G01S 3/14 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/71637 (2013.01); G01S 3/46 (2013.01); G01S 3/48 (2013.01); H04B 1/7163 (2013.01); H04B 1/7183 (2013.01); G01S 3/14 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an ultra-wideband ('UWB') receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode, 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, 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”). During a data recovery mode, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation.


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