Method and device for demodulating signals using multiple receivers
OwnerKe Wu, Seyed Ali Keivaan +1inventors
InventorsKe Wu, Seyed Ali Keivaan, Pascal Burasa
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Abstract
A device includes one or more controllers and multiple spatially distributed receivers. Each receiver is controllable by the one or more controllers between an activated state in which the receiver is operable to detect an incoming signal, and a deactivated state in which the receiver is not operable to detect the incoming signal. At least a first receiver and a second receiver of the receivers, each in the activated state, are configured to demodulate the incoming signal by: demodulating with the first receiver an in-phase component of the incoming signal; and demodulating with the second receiver a quadrature component of the incoming signal.
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A device comprising:
- one or more controllers;
- and
- multiple spatially distributed receivers, each receiver being controllable by the one or more controllers between:
- an activated state in which the receiver is operable to detect an incoming signal;
- and
- a deactivated state in which the receiver is not operable to detect the incoming signal, and
- wherein at least a first receiver and a second receiver of the receivers, each in the activated state, are configured to demodulate the incoming signal by:
- demodulating with the first receiver an in-phase component of the incoming signal;
- and
- demodulating with the second receiver a quadrature component of the incoming signal.
A method demodulating an incoming signal using multiple spatially distributed receivers, wherein:
- each receiver is controllable by the one or more controllers between:
- an activated state in which the receiver is operable to detect the incoming signal;
- and
- a deactivated state in which the receiver is not operable to detect the incoming signal;
- and
- the method comprises:
- demodulating with a first receiver, in the activated state, an in-phase component of the incoming signal;
- and
- demodulating with a second receiver, in the activated state, a quadrature component of the incoming signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.