IP Library Granted Patent US 8,457,252
Granted Patent B2
US 8,457,252 · App. 12/450,685 · Granted Jun 4, 2013

Method and apparatus for digital signal reception

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Patent No.
US 8,457,252
App. No.
12/450,685
Granted
Jun 4, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a digital signal reception method and apparatus. Said digital signal receiver comprises a Common Phase Error removal unit for eliminating CPE contained in the received signal by using CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers; a channel estimation unit for estimating channel state information of the received signal after removing the CPE and feed the CSI to the CPE removal unit, and a means for generating the CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers by multiplying the CSI with 1 or −1 according to positive or negative sign of the local pilot sub-carriers only in response to continual pilots of the received signal. Said method comprises estimating the CSI of the received digital signal after removing CPE; and eliminating the CPE of the received signal by using the CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers, whereby a low complexity and high accuracy are achieved.

Claims (13)

1. A digital signal receiver comprising:

a Common Phase Error (CPE) removal unit ( 240 ) configured to reduce common phase error of the received signal by using pilot sub-carriers that are corrected from local pilot sub-carriers with channel state information (CSI); and

a channel estimation (CE) unit ( 250 ) configured to estimate the channel state information (CSI) of the received signal after reducing common phase error (CPE) and feed the CSI back to the CPE removal unit ( 240 );

wherein, the CPE removal unit ( 240 ) comprises a means ( 241 ) for generating the CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers by multiplying the CSI received from the CE unit ( 250 ) with 1 or −1 according to positive or negative sign of the local pilot sub-carriers only in response to continual pilots of the received signal.

2. The digital signal receiver as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the CPE removal unit ( 240 ) further comprises:

a means ( 243 ) for correlating extracted pilot sub-carriers of the received signal with the CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers, and

a means ( 246 ) for reducing the CPE contained in the received signal by multiplying estimated phase angel of the correlation result with the received signal delayed by one symbol.

3. A digital signal reception method comprising:

estimating channel state information (CSI) of the digital signal received after removing Common Phase Error (CPE); and

reducing the CPE of the received signal by using CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers that are generated by multiplying the CSI generated in the previous step with 1 or −1 according to positive or negative sign of the local pilot sub-carriers only in response to continual pilots of the received signal.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , characterized in that it further comprises

correlating extracted pilot sub-carriers of the received signal with the CSI corrected pilot sub-carriers; and

reducing the CPE contained in the received signal by multiplying estimated phase angel of the correlation result with the received signal delayed by one symbol.

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CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY NAME FROM INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS TO INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 47332 FRAME: 511. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Feb 28, 2024
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