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Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2005
Applicants:

Mark S. Wallace, Bedford, MA (US);

Irina Medvedev, Somerville, MA (US);

Jay Rodney Walton, Carlisle, MA (US);

Inventors:

Mark S. Wallace, Bedford, MA (US);

Irina Medvedev, Somerville, MA (US);

Jay Rodney Walton, Carlisle, MA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/216 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A receiving entity obtains received symbols for a data transmission having at least one data symbol stream sent with space-time transmit diversity (STTD). The receiving entity derives an overall channel response matrix in accordance with the STTD encoding scheme used for the data transmission, derives a spatial filter matrix based on the overall channel response matrix, and performs spatial matched filtering on a vector of received symbols for each 2-symbol interval to obtain a vector of detected symbols for the 2-symbol interval. The receiving entity may perform post-processing (e.g., conjugation) on the detected symbols if needed. Alternatively, the receiving entity derives a spatial filter matrix based on an effective channel response matrix, performs spatial matched filtering on the received symbols for each symbol period to obtain detected symbols for that symbol period, and combines multiple estimates obtained for each data symbol sent with STTD.


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