117 results about "Burst noise" patented technology

Modified error distance decoding. In certain communication systems, multiple signals (e.g., which may be viewed as being codewords, groups/sets of bits or symbols, etc.) can be commonly affected by such deleterious phenomenon as burst noise when traversing a communication channel (e.g., from a transmitter communication device to a receiver communication device). In such instances, a test error pattern may be identified which covers those affected bits (or symbols) among at least two respective signals (e.g., all of the respective signals or any subset thereof). Various respective test error patterns may be employed, each having a different respective weight, to the desired group of signals (e.g., codewords, groups/sets of bits or symbols, etc.). As such, more than one possible estimate of each respective signal may be generated. A variety of selection operations may be employed when more than one possible estimate exists (e.g., random selection, that estimate with minimum distance, etc.).

A receiver for receiving a multi-carrier modulated symbol is arranged to suppress a burst noise signal which may have been induced in the symbol. The symbol includes a plurality of pilot carriers as well as a plurality of data bearing carriers. The receiver comprises a burst noise detection processor operable to detect the temporal position of the burst noise signal which may have corrupted the symbol within a period occupied by the symbol, and a channel estimation processor operable to generate a decimated noise signal corresponding to the burst noise, from the recovered pilot carriers. An inverse Fourier transform of the decimated noise signal provides a plurality of estimated versions of the burst noise signal. A noise signal processor is operable to generate an estimate of the burst noise signal by identifying one of the plurality of estimated burst noise versions at the detected temporal location of the burst noise signal. The noise signal processor may be operable to set the signal samples other than the identified estimate of the burst noise signal to zero and to perform a Fourier transform, to provide a frequency domain version of the burst noise signal, thereby interpolating the decimated noise signal. The frequency domain noise signal estimate may be cancelled from the symbol by a noise cancellation processor in the frequency domain, before data is recovered from the symbol. The receiver finds application for Digital Video Broadcasting in which COFDM is employed.

Method and system for reducing impulsive burst noise in less delayed reception in pilot based OFDM systems, especially using DVB-T standard such as Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is provided. The method contains following steps: 1) recognition of the impulse position and possibly length in the time domain symbol, 2) blanking of those samples of the symbol where significant amount of impulse noise is present, 3) calculating the first estimate of the received signal from the blanked symbol, 4) deriving correction values for the carrier estimates by applying prior information (pilot carriers), and 5) the corrected estimate of the received symbol is derived by subtracting the correction values of step 4 from the first estimate of carriers derived in step 3. The method and arrangement allow correction of fairly long bursts of impulse noise with minor degradation only. The complexity of the scheme and the additional energy consumption are fairly low. The method provides considerably more effective more simple and less delay in broadcast data reception than previously known solutions in interfered multi-carrier signal reception.

A method is provided for reading distorted optical symbols using known locating and decoding methods, without requiring a separate and elaborate camera calibration procedure, without excessive computational complexity, and without compromised burst noise handling. The invention exploits a distortion-tolerant method for locating and decoding 2D code symbols to provide a correspondence between a set of points in an acquired image and a set of points in the symbol. A coordinate transformation is then constructed using the correspondence, and run-time images are corrected using the coordinate transformation. Each corrected run-time image provides a distortion-free representation of a symbol that can be read by traditional code readers that normally cannot read distorted symbols. The method can handle both optical distortion and printing distortion. The method is applicable to “portable” readers when an incident angle with the surface is maintained, the reader being disposed at any distance from the surface.

Method and system for tolerating impulsive burst noise in pilot based OFDM systems, especially using DVB-T standard. The method contains following steps: 1) recognition of the impulse position and possibly length in the time domain symbol, 2) blanking of those samples of the symbol where significant amount of impulse noise is present, 3) calculating the first estimate of the received signal from the blanked symbol, 4) using a prior information (guard band carriers, pilot carriers) an estimate of the blanked symbol is calculated using inverse FFT on the differences of the observed carrier values from the known values in the frequency domain, 5) correction values for the frequency domain carriers are derived taking the FFT of the restored time domain samples, 6) finally the corrected estimate of the received symbol is derived by summing the correction values of step 5 to the first estimate of carriers derived in step 3. The method allows correction of relatively long bursts of impulse noise with minor degradation. The method provides considerably reliable data reception in broadcast systems.

An apparatus performs burst noise detection and then reduce the interference of the burst noise by controlling an operation of an adaptive apparatus, such as an equalizer. It includes: an adaptive apparatus having multiple coefficients, processing incoming signals according to these coefficients, and employing an error estimator to update the coefficients; a burst noise detector used to detect a burst noise; and an ON/OFF switching unit used to stop the error estimator from updating the coefficients when the burst noise is detected.

In cable modem termination systems (CMTS) and other information transmission systems, a method for changing the interleave depth associated with each data stream is provided. This may be done dynamically, and for any subset of downstream devices such as modems. The interleave depth may be set on an individual device level. Embodiments may decrease data receiving latency on devices that do not suffer from error rates, such as caused by burst noise, while maintaining throughput on devices with high error rates.

Disclosed is a method of estimating the distance between two nodes. The method includes obtaining an original real-time strength sequence, its elements being strengths of signals between the two nodes at respective time slots of a first time period; conducting multi-scale transform with respect to the original real-time strength sequence so as to acquire plural real-time strength component sequences which are results of the original real-time strength sequence projected onto plural scales; removing at least one burst noise element in each real-time strength component sequence so as to get plural updated real-time strength component sequences; estimating, based on the plural updated real-time strength component sequences and a multi-scale empirical mapping relationship, an empirical real-time distance, the multi-scale empirical mapping relationship being used for expressing correspondence relations between strength components and distance components; and determining, based on at least the empirical real-time distance, a real-time distance between the two nodes.

The invention discloses a method and equipment for monitoring sleep apnea. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining sound information collected in a sleeping period of a patient; identifying the collected sound information and distinguishing snore information of the patient in the sound information; determining the sleep apnea in a sleeping period of the patient according to the snore information; and determining the snore information sent in one sleeping period of the patient by analyzing the sound information collected in one sleeping period of the patient, so as to determine the sleep apnea in the sleeping period of the patient according to the snore information. The problem that background noises and burst noises in a sleep scene are greatly overlapped with snore signals on a time-frequency domain when a manner of judging the apnea by analyzing snores is adopted so that the snore signal cannot be accurately monitored is solved, and the apnea monitoring precision is effectively improved.

Impulse and/or burst noise signal to noise ratio (SNR) aware concatenated forward error correction (FEC). Adaptive processing is performed on a signal based on one or more effects which may deleteriously modify a signal. For example, based on a modification of a signal to noise ratio (SNR) associated with one or more impulse or burst noise events, which may be estimated, different respective processing may be performed selectively to differently affected bits associated with the signal. For example, two respective SNRs may be employed: a first SNR for one or more first bits, and a second SNR for one or more second bits. For example, as an impulse or burst noise event may affect different respective bits of a codeword differently, and adaptive processing may be made such that different respective bits of the codeword may be handled differently.

A communication device is configured adaptively to process a receive signal based on noise that may have adversely affected the signal during transition via communication channel. The device may be configured to identify those portions of the signal of the signal that are noise-affected (e.g., noise-affected sub-carriers of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal), or the device may receive information that identifies those portions of the signal that are noise-affected from one or more other devices. The device may be configured to perform the modulation processing of the received signal to generate log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for use in decoding the signal. Those LLRs associated with noise-affected portions of the signal are handled differently than LLRs associated with portions of the signal that are not noise-affected. The LLRs may be scaled based on signal to noise ratio(s) (SNR(s)) associated with the signal (e.g., based on background noise, burst noise, etc.).

The invention discloses an audio detection method, which comprises the following steps: after audio monitoring is started, environmental background noise is sampled, an energy value corresponding to each sampling point is calculated, and a maximal value and a minimal value are obtained through comparing energy values corresponding to all sampling points during a sampling time of 20 to 40s; sound in a monitoring region is sampled at a sampling time interval deltat of 1/64 to 1/2s, an energy value corresponding to each sampling point is calculated, an energy value corresponding to each sampling point obtained within a sampling time length S2 is compared with an alarm reference threshold, alarm is triggered when the number of the sampling points whose energy values exceed the alarm reference threshold is larger than a value N/2, and no alarm is triggered when the number of the sampling points whose energy values exceed the alarm reference threshold is smaller than a value N/2, wherein the N is a sampling point number S2/deltat within the sampling time length S2. The method can eliminate surrounding regular noise or surrounding burst noise or interference and can detect abnormal sound.

The invention discloses a method for estimating time of arrival of a signal in a strong multipath environment. According to the method, normalized matching and filtering are carried out on a received signal, so that the noise interference is reduced and the influence caused by signal transmission losses is reduced. Meanwhile, the maximum value and the minimum value of the receiving signal filter output are considered in terms of dynamic threshold setting, so that the channel response as well as the signal to noise ratio information is represented. Besides, with a maximum value detection backtracking method, a phenomenon that searching is started at the output starting point of the filter after threshold determination is avoided and the computing load is reduced. Because of a small backtracking range, burst noise peak values fall beyond the backtracking window in most cases, thereby avoiding the possible peak interference to the greatest extent and improving the TOA estimation efficiency and precision. The method has advantages of simple algorithm and accurate TOA estimation and the like. The experiment demonstrates that the method has the high TOA estimation precision on an indoor condition, so that the good foundation can be laid for realizing high-precision positioning.

Handling burst error events with interleaved Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. A received signal, that has undergone convolutional interleaving sometime before, is received from a burst noise affected communication channel. The signal undergoes convolutional deinterleaving and the codewords generated there from undergo appropriate successive cyclic shifting to arrange burst noise affected symbols of various codewords into at least some common symbol locations. For example, at least two codewords have burst noise affected symbols in common symbol locations. An ensemble decoder jointly decodes multiple codewords during a same time period (i.e., processes multiple codewords simultaneously). By processing multiple codewords simultaneously, the ensemble decoder has greater error correction capability than a decoder that processes a single codeword at a time.

A single carrier transmitting system capable of reducing distortion of transmission signals and a method thereof are provided to reduce distortion of transmission signals in a channel environment where a burst noise exists, and improve the receipt capability of a receiving side. A scrambler(100) randomizes transmitting data signals. An FEC(Forward Error Correction) unit(110) corrects a bit error of an inputted data stream. A section distinguishing unit(141) distinguishes between a frame synchronous section and a data section of a transmission signal. A modulator(143) modulates the distinguished sections in different single carrier methods. A modulation information transmitting unit(145) transmits information related to the modulation methods to a receiving side through the frame synchronous section.

A system, method and computer program product is provided for mitigating the effects of burst noise on packets transmitted in a communications system. A transmitting device applies an outer code, which may include, for example, a block code, an exclusive OR (XOR) code, or a repetition code, to one or more packets prior to adaptation of the packets for transmission over the physical (PHY) layer of the communications system, wherein the PHY layer adaptation may include FEC encoding of individual packets. The outer coded packets are then separately transmitted over a channel of the communications system. A receiving device receives the outer coded packets, performs PHY level demodulation and optional FEC decoding of the packets, and then applies outer code decoding to the outer coded packets in order to restore packets that were erased during transmission due to burst noise or other impairments on the channel.