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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Katsuya Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiko Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 ;
Abstract
A pilot signal detection method and a receiver, in which a search window having a predetermined time width is generated at every substantially constant time interval, and pilot signals existing in search window thus generated are detected. The position of the search window of each period is set in accordance with the delay amount between the timing (T_ref) of the first pilot signal and the timing (T_last) of the last pilot signal detected in the immediately preceding search window.