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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2009
Severine Catreux, Cardiff, CA (US);
Vinko Erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Pieter Roux, San Diego, CA (US);
Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jack Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);
Severine Catreux, Cardiff, CA (US);
Vinko Erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Pieter Roux, San Diego, CA (US);
Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jack Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for processing communication signals is disclosed and may include, in a receiver and/or a baseband processor coupled to the receiver, the receiver comprising a plurality of antennas, generating a plurality of RF weighting values based on one or more output bit error rates of the receiver. A plurality of spatially-multiplexed RF signals, which are received by the receiver, may be weighted with the one or more of the generated plurality of RF weighting values, to form a plurality of weighted RF signals. Two or more of the generated plurality of weighted RF signals may be combined to form one or more combined RF signals. Each of the one or more combined RF signals may be processed by a different RF processing chain. The one or more output bit error rates of the receiver may be minimized by the generation of the plurality of RF weighting values.