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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1999
Anjali Shastri, Clarksville, MD (US);
Brian William Kroeger, Sykesville, MD (US);
USA Digital Radio, Inc., Columbia, MD (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a method for reducing peak to average power ratio in a radio frequency signal. The method comprises the steps of modulating a plurality of sub-carriers with a plurality of data symbol vectors to produce a first modulated signal; limiting the magnitude of the first modulated signal to produce a first limited modulated signal; demodulating the first limited modulated signal to recover the constellation points; predistorting the data symbol vectors to provide a minimum magnitude for in-phase and quadrature components thereof to produce predistorted data symbol vectors; modulating the plurality of carriers with the predistorted data symbol vectors to produce a second modulated signal; limiting the magnitude the second modulated signal to produce a second limited modulated signal; and reducing intermodulation products in the second limited modulated signal. Transmitters that perform the method are also included.