US 5,483,529 AGranted

Receiver

AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation

InventorsConstant P. M. J. Baggen, Arie G. C. Koppelaar

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Abstract

Receiver for receiving a transmission signal comprising N frequency multiplexed data modulated carriers, having a good compromise between insensitivity to multipath reception and receiver complexity, and which may enable a reduction in transmission bandwidth and transmitter power. In such a receiver, modulation signals of the carriers are supplied by a frequency multiplex demodulator to a symbol detection device via an equalizer device. The equalizer device compensates distortion in the modulation signals supplied thereto, such that the symbol detection device may detect the transmitted data with reduced error probability. When the transmission signal reaches the receiver with different delay times, this distortion is mainly a kind of cross-talk between the modulation of adjacent carriers. Therefore substantial compensation is achieved by combining the modulation signal of a carder with signals representative of the data of the adjacent carriers. In the receiver, these signals may be obtained from the multiplex signal path between the frequency multiplex demodulator output and the output of the symbol detection device.

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Receiver for receiving a transmission signal comprising a plurality of N frequency multiplexed data modulated carriers, N being an integer, said receiver comprising:

a frequency multiplex demodulator for demodulating said N frequency multiplexed data modulated carrier and for supplying modulation signals of said N carriers;
and
a data recovery device having input means for receiving said modulation signals of said N carriers from the frequency multiplex demodulator, and output means for supplying recovered data to further signal processing devices, said data recovery device having a multiplex data recovery signal path between said input means and said output means for carrying a multiplex signal having N signal components, each component representing the data of an individual carrier, said data recovery device comprising an equalization device coupled to said input means, followed by a symbol detection device serially arranged in the multiplex signal path and coupled to said output means, characterized in that the equalization device comprises:
means for supplying groups of M signal components corresponding to the data of M carriers of said N carriers, M being an integer substantially smaller than N;
and
combining means coupled to said supplying means for combining each respective one of the modulation signals of said N carriers from said frequency multiplex demodulator with one of said groups of M signal components from said supplying means, said one group of M signal components corresponding to the data of M carriers which are frequency adjacent to the carrier corresponding to the respective one of the modulation signals, said equalization device supplying the combined signal components to the symbol detection device, such as to recover the data modulated on said carrier.

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