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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 43 ; 375341 ;
Abstract
A maximum likelihood sequence estimation apparatus decodes a digital data signal. The apparatus includes: a sampling device to perform sampling and to output a received signal by sampling pulses having a constant time interval T and N different sampling phases; an operation device to operate a branch metric of the received signal sampled by the N different sampling phases; and a device to perform maximum likelihood sequence estimation of the branch metric.