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Method for cancelling impulsive noise

Assignee: KDDI Corp
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Filing: 1979-01-19
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Granted: 1981-06-09
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Expires: 1999-01-19
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Abstract

Abstract A method for cancelling impulsive noise in a system of transmitting a band-limited baseband signal through a channel with a wider band than that of the baseband signal, in which an impulsive noise caused in the transmission channel is detected, to produce a detected output, from the received signal of the transmission channel outside of the frequency band of the band-limited baseband signal, and in which a cancelling pulse of reverse-polarity is produced as a pseudo noise pulse from the detected impulsive noise output and then superimposed on the original received signal, thereby cancelling the impulsive noise.

Inventors

  • 👤 Takuro Muratani
  • 👤 Tatsuo Watanabe
  • 👤 Michihisa Ohkawa
  • 👤 Takeshi Mizuike

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-28 18:19
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/06; H04B1/10; H04B1/12

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim 169 words
A method for cancelling impulsive noise for a system of transmitting a band-limited baseband signal using a transmission channel having a transmission bandwidth larger than the bandwidth of the baseband signal, comprising the steps of: applying an out-band signal received outside of the frequency band of the baseband signal in a received signal to an impulse detector having a predetermined threshold level to detect the peak of an impulsive noise in the received out-band signal and to produce a detected impulsive noise output; generating a rectangular pulse having a duration determined according to the transmission bandwidth of the band-limited baseband signal and having a peak level determined according to the detected peak of the impulse noise; producing a pseudo noise pulse substantially equal in level but reverse in polarity to the impulsive noise from the detected impulsive noise output by passing said rectangular pulse through a baseband low-pass filter; and adding the pseudo noise pulse to the baseband signal, thereby to cancel the impulsive noise from the received signal.
Claim 2
Independent Claim 169 words
A method for cancelling impulsive noise for a system of transmitting a band-limited baseband signal using a transmission channel having a transmission bandwidth larger than the bandwidth of the baseband signal, comprising the steps of: applying an out-band signal received outside of the frequency band of the baseband signal in a received signal to an impulse detector having a predetermined threshold level to detect the peak of an impulsive noise in the received out-band signal and to produce a detected impulsive noise output; generating a rectangular pulse having a duration determined according to the transmission bandwidth of the band-limited baseband signal and having a peak level determined according to the detected peak of the impulse noise; producing a pseudo noise pulse substantially equal in level but reverse in polarity to the impulsive noise from the detected impulsive noise output by passing said rectangular pulse through a baseband low-pass filter; and adding the pseudo noise pulse to the baseband signal, thereby to cancel the impulsive noise from the received signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 83 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the out-band received signal is picked up by a branch circuit from an analog output from an analog demodulator for demodulating the received signal, wherein the pseudo noise pulse is produced as an analog noise wave, and wherein the baseband signal obtained in the analog output from the demodulator is added to the analog noise wave via an analog delay line having a delay time corresponding to the time necessary for producing the analog noise wave.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 82 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the out-band received signal is picked up by a branch circuit from a digital output from a digital demodulator for demodulating the received signal, wherein the pseudo noise pulse is produced as a digital noise wave, and wherein the baseband signal obtained in the digital output from the demodulator is added to the digital noise wave via a shift register having a delay time corresponding to the time necessary for producing the digital noise wave.

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