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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:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2008
Applicants:
Maxim Belotserkovsky, Carmel, IN (US);
Aaron Reel Bouillet, Noblesville, IN (US);
Inventors:
Maxim Belotserkovsky, Carmel, IN (US);
Aaron Reel Bouillet, Noblesville, IN (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/159 (2006.01); H04L 27/22 (2006.01); H03D 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A receiver is an ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)-receiver and comprises a controller and an equalizer, which comprises a feed-forward filter and a feed-back filter. The feed-forward filter comprising at least one tap associated with at least one tap coefficient value. The controller determines a location of at least one tap of the equalizer; and if that location is close to a tap boundary (or edge) of the equalizer, the at least one tap of the equalizer is shifted forward or backward by at least one sample position.