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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Livingstone Richardson, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/00 ; H04L 2/722 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/00 ; H04L 2/722 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for decoding a phase encoded data signal utilizes windowed data which is transformed into real and imaginary frequency components thereof. The real and imaginary frequency components are converted into phase and magnitude information. The magnitude information is used to calculate a threshold based upon a signal-to-noise ratio, and the phase of the data signal is corrected by identifying and sorting magnitude peaks. The data signal is differentially demodulated and the demodulated data is then multiplied by a correlation sequence so as to facilitate its being converted into a binary number.