Device and method for improving the carrier-to-noise ratio for a receiver with diversity
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsJean-Luc Robert, Jean-Yves Le Naour, Jean-François Pintos
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Abstract
The method of improving the carrier-to-noise ratio for a receiver with diversity, and the associated device, consists, after extracting, by phase shifting, the noise component of the signals to be demodulated, in optimizing the cancellation of the useful component via a feedback loop acting on the phase shifter and in summing the noise component in phase and in phase opposition with these signals to improve the carrier-to-noise ratio.
Claims7
A method of improving the carrier-to-noise ratio of a signal to be demodulated which is modulated at an intermediate frequency and diversity received from at least two synchronized receive subsystems of a digital receiver, the method comprising steps of:
- Extracting a signal B representing the noise component of the received signals from the two receive subsystems by cancelling the useful component of the signal to be demodulated;
- forming a feedback loop at the intermediate frequency to optimize the cancellation of the useful component of the modulated signal;
- adding the signal B representing the noise component in phase to one of the two received signals to be demodulated and in phase opposition to the other of the two received signals to be demodulated to minimize correlated noise contributions;
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- applying the resulting signals to corresponding demodulators of the synchronized receive subsystems.
A device for improving the carrier-to-noise ratio of a signal to be demodulated, which is modulated at an intermediate frequency by a frequency of a local oscillator and diversity received from at least two receive subsystems of a digital receiver having synchronized tuner elements, the signal being received as received signals from the at least two receive subsystems, the device being disposed downstream of each synchronized tuner element and upstream of each demodulator in the respective two receive subsystems, the device comprising:
- means for extracting a signal B representing the noise component of the received signals from the two receive subsystems by cancelling the useful component of the signal to be demodulated;
- means for forming a feedback loop at the intermediate frequency in order to optimize the cancellation of the useful component of the modulated signal;
- means for summing, in phase, this signal B representing the noise component with one of the two received signals to be demodulated and, in phase opposition, this signal B with the other of the two received signals to be demodulated to minimize correlated noise contributions;
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- means for applying the resulting signals to the corresponding demodulators of the receive subsystems.
A digital receiver with diversity comprising:
- at least two receive subsystems;
- a device for improving the carrier-to-noise ratio of a signal to be demodulated and which is modulated at an intermediate frequency by a frequency of an oscillator, the signal being diversity received from the at least two receive subsystems, the device being disposed downstream of a tuner element and upstream of a demodulator of the respective two receive subsystems, the two receive subsystems having synchronized tuner elements, the device for improving the carrier-to-noise ratio of a signal to be demodulated further comprises:
- means for extracting a signal B representing the noise component of the received signals from the two receive subsystems by cancelling the useful component of the signal to be demodulated;
- means for forming a feedback loop at the intermediate frequency to optimize the cancellation of the useful component of the modulated signal;
- means for summing, in phase, this signal B representing the noise component with one of the two received signals to be demodulated and, in phase opposition, this signal B with the other of the two received signals to be demodulated to minimize correlated noise contributions;
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- means for applying the resulting signals to the corresponding demodulators of the receive subsystems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.