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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:
Dec. 20, 1988

Filed:

May. 09, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:

Peter F Adams, Ipswich, GB;

Mark J Smith, Edinburgh, GB;

Robert B Carpenter, Ipswich, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36472419 ;
Abstract

A non-linear adaptive filter is described having a linear filter connected in parallel with a non-linear filter. The linear filter provides fast adaption until it has modelled the linear contribution of each coefficient. Thereafter the non-linear filter continues to adapt until the error signal has been reduced to an acceptable level. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of unit delay devices provide taps to sub-processing units each of which is arranged to be adapted according to a linear algorithm during an initial part of a training period, and to a non-linear algorithm after said initial part. The filter has particular use in echo cancellers for data modems.


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