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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Cyril Valadon, Letchworth, GB;
Richard Lane, Cottenham, GB;
Neil Colin Campbell, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of steering a channel estimation search window, the method comprising providing a series of raw CIR tap values to span a channel estimation search window containing a sub-window whose contents are intended to be passed for further processing to produce a refined CIR estimate, determining, amongst a plurality of groups of continuous tap values within the window, the group containing the largest amount of signal energy and time-shifting the window as necessary to arrange that the group so determined occupies the sub-window.