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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2007
Applicant:
Cyril Valadon, Letchworth, GB;
Inventor:
Cyril Valadon, Letchworth, GB;
Assignees:
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., , KY;
MStar Software R&D, Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
MStar France SAS, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
MStar Semiconductor, Inc., , TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/46 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2006.01); H04Q 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus arranged to analyse a signal comprising a series of symbols, the apparatus comprising means for calculating a metric of said signal, filter means for filtering said signal, means for calculating a metric of said filtered signal and means for comparing said metrics, wherein the filtering means is arranged to track a spectral feature of the signal and maintain that feature within the pass band of the filtering means.