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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
May. 03, 2005
Christopher D. Pearce, Hook, GB;
Richard J. Smith, Fleet Hampshire, GB;
Roger Sydney Dudley Smith, Legal Representative, Malvern Worcester, GB;
Judith Jane Smith, Legal Representative, Malvern Worcester, GB;
Christopher D. Pearce, Hook, GB;
Richard J. Smith, Fleet Hampshire, GB;
Roger Sydney Dudley Smith, legal representative, Malvern Worcester, GB;
Judith Jane Smith, legal representative, Malvern Worcester, GB;
Sonardyne International Ltd., Yateley, Hampshire, GB;
Abstract
A robust underwater communication system, for communication between an acoustic signal transmitter and a remotely positioned acoustic signal receiver, wherein transmitted data is carried by a plurality of symbols each having two components one of which comprises a distinctive bit code and the other of which appertains to the character of the symbol as a whole wherein the character of successive symbols is stepped through a predetermined continuously repeating sequence of distinctive steps each of which occurs once in the sequence, the signal receiver being operated synchronously with the signal transmitter and comprising a correlator arrangement responsive both to the bit code and to the character of received signals for effecting demodulation and having a plurality of outputs one for each symbol, so that as each symbol is detected a signal on the output to which it corresponds pre-dominates and amplitude detector means responsive to the outputs from the correlator arrangement for providing an output signal corresponding to the data transmitted.