521 results about "Pulse noise" patented technology

Methods and communication systems are presented, in which impulse noise is monitored on a communication channel, and an interleaver depth is adjusted according to the monitored impulse noise without interrupting communication service.

A system for detecting and correcting impulse noise present on an input data signal includes an impulse detector module receiving an input data signal and producing as output an correction enable signal indicating when an impulse correction is required. An impulse corrector module receives the input data signal and a correction enable signal and produces a corrected data signal, e.g., having the impulse canceled or blanked, as output. A reliability estimator and selector module receives the corrected data signal and the input data signal and selects as output the input signal which is more reliable. In one embodiment, the impulse detector includes first and second complementary impulse detectors, the outputs of which are analyzed by an enable and correction module to produce an impulse detection signal with improved accuracy. Preferably, the enable and correction module also indicates the most appropriate type of impulse correction in accordance with the detection signals from the complementary detectors. A novel system and method of detecting impulses based on Gram Schmidt techniques is also presented. In this method, one or more channels of a multi-channel data signal are kept free of data. When a whitening filter is applied, impulses on these quiet channels are emphasized. The Gram Schmidt technique exploits this fact to provide for improved impulse detection. The system can be modified to detect other types of low dimensionality noise.

PCT No. PCT/JP98/01128 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 4, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 4, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 17, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/41143 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 24, 1998The present invention relates to a pulse wave detecting device for detecting pulse waves, and to a pulse measurer employing this pulse wave detecting device. The present invention addresses the problem of obtaining a pulse wave signal in which the noise components have been suitably removed from a pulse waveform, and of determining the pulse rate with high accuracy based on this pulse wave signal. The method for deriving the pulse wave signal and pulse rate is as follows. The pulse wave signal from pulse wave detecting sensor unit (30) is temporarily stored in buffer (503). When impulse noise is detected in the pulse wave signal in buffer (503) by impulse noise detecting means (505), the band pass for first digital filter (506) becomes a hill-shaped curve centered on the frequency corresponding to the preceding pulse rate, and impulse noise in the pulse wave signal output from buffer (503) is decreased. Thereafter, overall noise and body movement components are decreased in the pulse wave signal by means of second digital filter (507) and third digital filter (508). The signal is then subjected to frequency analysis by frequency analyzer (509), and the pulse rate is calculated from the results of this analysis.

A noise suppression circuit for a communications channel (10) comprises a hybrid device (11) coupled to the channel for providing a differential output signal corresponding to a received signal. A delay unit (12) delays the differential signal by a suitable amount to allow for the generation and subtraction of a noise estimate. A summing device (13) extracts a digital common mode signal from the channel, and a noise estimation unit (16) provides a common mode noise estimate signal in dependence upon a history of the common mode signal over a predetermined period of time and over a plurality of frequency bands. The common mode noise estimate signal is combined subtractively (19) with the delayed differential signal to cancel common mode noise elements of the delayed differential signal. The noise estimation unit may comprise an analysis filter bank (20) for producing a plurality of subband signals (S1-SM), each at a different one of a plurality of different frequencies, a plurality of noise detection circuits (231-23M), each for processing a respective one of the plurality of subband signals to provide a component of the common mode noise estimate signal, and a synthesis filter bank (24) for processing the common mode noise signal components to provide the noise estimate signal.

A content-dependent scan rate converter with adaptive noise reduction that provides a highly integrated, implementation efficient de-interlacer. By identifying and using redundant information from the image (motion values and edge directions), this scan rate converter is able to perform the tasks of film-mode detection, motion-adaptive scan rate conversion, and content-dependent video noise reduction. Adaptive video noise reduction is incorporated in the process where temporal noise reduction is performed on the still parts of the image, thus preserving high detail spatial information, and data-adaptive spatial noise reduction is performed on the moving parts of the image. A low-pass filter is used in flat fields to smooth out Gaussian noise and a direction-dependent median filter is used in the presence of impulsive noise or an edge. Therefore, the selected spatial filter is optimized for the particular pixel that is being processed to maintain crisp edges.

The invention discloses a method for estimating pulse noise in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Domain Multiplexing) underwater acoustic communication system. At a receiving end, sparse estimation is performed on pulse noise on an OFDM signal in an underwater acoustic channel transmission process according to a frequency domain signal subjected to redundant Doppler frequency shift compensation, and frequency offset compensation is performed on the frequency domain signal subjected to the redundant Doppler frequency shift compensation with void subcarriers. Under the consideration of mutual interference between the pulse noise and a carrier frequency offset in underwater acoustic communication, compensation of the carrier frequency offset is added in an iteration process while the pulse noise is estimated with all subcarriers and a posteriori distribution under a framework of conventional sparse Bayesian learning, and the frequency domain signal subjected to the redundant Doppler frequency shift compensation and a measurement diagonal matrix for estimating the pulse noise are updated continuously in order to lower influences between the two types of interference. Moreover, the pulse noise is estimated by full utilization of all the subcarriers in the method, so that the spectrum efficiency and the performance of the communication system are improved.

The present invention provides digital subscriber line noise mitigation techniques, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a toolbox of methods and techniques for mitigating the effects of noise in xDSL systems. These methods and techniques are controllable and locatable at one or both ends of a DSL communication link (e.g., within a central office transceiver unit or a remote transceiver unit). These novel methods and techniques include: (1) per tone noise margin modification, (2) data framer constraints modification, (3) improved noise measurements; (4) more robust on-line reconfiguration processes, (5) worst case noise monitoring, (6) induced bit rate limitations, and (7) distortion noise mitigation. These methods and techniques are particularly useful for mitigating the effects of time-varying noise and impulse noise.

Impulse noise from nearby or intense electrical sources can disrupt communications over digital subscriber lines. There are many methods to deal with errors produced by impulse noise sources. Forward error correction (FEC) codes such as Reed Solomon coding along with scrambling and interleaving are used to correct small errors. However, for larger errors, retransmission is favored. Retransmission can be applied at the Discrete Multi-tone symbol level thus eliminating the need to insert sequence identification into data transmission units, furthermore retransmission can also be employed to exploit the error correcting capabilities of the FEC codes. Finally, an impulse noise protection system can exploit impulse noise statistics to configure the redundancy in the FEC codes and to enable the use of blanking. Exemplary embodiments of systems described can cooperatively use impulse noise statistics to utilize retransmission, FEC and blanking to mitigate the effects of impulse noise.

A pulsed compression noise correlation radar uses noise modulation and pulse compression technology to scramble recognizable transmit signal characteristics and reduce transmit energy. The pulsed noise correlation radar advantageously uses pulse compression technology, a pulsed linear frequency modulated noise correlation mixer, and a new and innovative noise fused waveform to automatically correlate the pulsed linear frequency modulated (LFM) noise waveform with the received signal. The pulsed noise correlation radar apparatus and system now make it possible to effectively reduce transmitting power, preserve high band widths through oversampling in the receiver, and achieve multi-channel array frequency diversity. A secure pulsed compression noise correlation radar system and methods for undetected target detection with pulsed noise correlation radar and a pulsed LFM fused noise waveform are also provided.

The present invention provides a system for mitigating impulse noise effects in a digital data transmission system, particularly in a DSL-based communications system (300), by optimizing error correction systems with an erasure forecasting scheme. Within the communications system, encoding and structuring constructs form and permute data transmission units for transmission in a deterministic manner (i.e., having known, fixed characteristics). Once data transmission units have been received over a transmission channel, de-structuring and decoding constructs inversely permute and decode those data transmission units, according to the deterministic manner. Data decoding is monitored (302), and the occurrence of an impulse noise event in the transmission channel is identified (304). A first data transmission unit affected by the impulse noise event is decoded (306). A forecasting construct evaluates the decoded first data transmission unit using known characteristics of the deterministic manner (308, 310), and develops a forecast (312) of locations of an erasure error within a subsequent decoded data transmission unit, which is then utilized to optimize error correction.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicinal material microscopic image noise filtering system and method adopting a pulse coupling neural network. A pulse coupling neural network model suitable for processing tissue image information is adopted for detecting traditional Chinese medicinal material microscopic images. When small-density pulse noise pollution happens to the traditional Chinese medicinal material microscopic images, adaptive weighted filtering processing is carried out; when large-density pulse noise pollution happens to the traditional Chinese medicinal material microscopic images, the introduction dual-structure element mathematical morphology with edge detailed information kept is adopted for secondary filtering. Earlier foundations are laid for further improving quality testing, recognition and identification of traditional Chinese medicinal materials; higher noisy point detection performance is achieved, the noise fallout ratio and omission ratio are low, and the noise detection precision is high; detection time is short, and automatism is high; noise is removed, meanwhile, noise interference can be effectively filtered out, and image edge details and other information can be protected well.

System correcting random and/or burst errors using RS (Reed-Solomon) code, turbo/LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code and convolutional interleave. A novel approach is presented that combines different coding types within a communication system to perform various types of error correction. This combination of accommodating different coding types may be employed at either end of a communication channel (e.g., at a transmitter end when performing encoding and/or at a receiver end when performing decoding). By combining different coding types within a communication system, the error correcting capabilities of the overall system is significantly improved. The appropriate combination of turbo code and/or LDPC code along with RS code allows for error correction or various error types including random error and burst error (or impulse noise).

A receiver recovers data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the OFDM symbols including sub-carrier symbols carrying data symbols and sub-carrier signals carrying pilot symbols. The receiver includes a Fourier transform processor arranged in operation to receive a time domain digital version of the OFDM symbols and to form a frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols, from which the pilot symbol sub-carriers and the data symbol bearing sub-carriers can be recovered, and a detector arranged in operation to recover the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols. The receiver includes a noise estimator arranged in operation to generate a long term estimate of noise power in the frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols at a plurality of frequencies, by accumulating an average noise power at the plurality of frequencies from a plurality of the OFDM symbols, and for generating an estimate of a current level of the noise power in the frequency domain version of a current one of the OFDM symbols at the plurality of frequencies. An impulsive noise detector detects the presence of an impulse of noise in the current OFDM symbol, by comparing the noise power in the current OFDM symbol with the long term noise power at the plurality of frequencies, and to generate an impulse noise flag to indicate that the current OFDM symbol is affected by an impulse of noise if the comparison indicates the presence of an impulse of noise. Impulsive noise in the time domain will generate an increase in noise level across the frequency bandwidth of the OFDM symbols. If all frequencies experience an increase then an impulse of noise can be detected. Thereafter the detector can conceal the effect of the impulse noise on the recovering of the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers, for example by adapting channel state information for use in de-mapping modulated symbols into data symbols.

The invention discloses a method of filtering image mixed noise, it includes step 1: selecting input first pixel in original image which includes mixed noise; step 2: judging whether the pixel belongs to pulse noise, if it is, enter step 3. if else enter step 4; step 3: the pixel is median filter processed to filter the pulse noise, then enter step 6; step 4: ensuring the members of the un-pulse noise pixel; step 5: gauss noise is filtered by filter; step 6: checking whether the all pixels are processed, if it is not, the next pixel is fetched, then turn to step 2; if it is, new image whose mixed noise is filtered is output. The method can filter mixed noise in image, at the same time edge and detail information of image can be protected well, and calculation speed is high.

The invention provides a method for detecting and removing pulse noise in a digital audio signal, which comprises the following steps: utilizing weighted difference vectors of adjacent signal samples in a certain neighbor in the signals to detect pulse number and determine detection thresholds of the noise pulse according to the estimation value of the change degree of the amplitude and frequency of the signal; utilizing the envelope based on the weighted difference vectors of the signal samples to evaluate the width of the noise pulse and establish an autoregressive model of the signal; according to the correlation of voice frequency signals, utilizing adjacent signal samples which are repaired or not contaminated to repair a signal section which is contaminated by the pulse noise and recover original signals. The invention has the advantages that a normal signal which is changed abruptly and the noise pulse can be separated, and the width of the pulse can be calculated; and meanwhile, by adopting the envelop which is formed by the weighted difference vectors of the signal, the position and the width of the noise pulse are detected, so that a single noise pulse, a plurality of contiguous noise pulses or a plurality of overlapping noise pulses can be processed.

A communication device constructed according to the present invention detects impulse noise in a preamble sequence. In detecting impulse noise in the preamble sequence the communication device first receive a preamble sequence that includes a plurality of preamble symbols. The communication device then divides the plurality of preamble symbols by at least one known preamble symbol to produce a plurality of preamble gains and/or a plurality of preamble phases corresponding to the plurality of preamble symbols. Finally, the communication device determines, based upon the plurality of preamble gains and/or the plurality of preamble phases, that at least one preamble symbol has been adversely affected by impulse noise. The communication device may discard at least one preamble symbol that has been adversely affected by impulse noise from the plurality of preamble symbols. The communication device may combine non-discarded preamble symbols of the plurality of preamble symbols of the preamble sequence to produce a composite result.

A system for canceling impulse noise comprises an adaptive impulse canceler and a combiner. The adaptive impulse canceler is configured to receive a common mode component of a received signal and to detect a noise impulse in the common mode component. The impulse canceler is further configured to provide, based on the noise impulse in the common mode component, an impulse noise estimation for a differential mode component of the received signal. The combiner is configured to receive the differential mode component and the impulse noise estimation and to subtract the impulse noise estimation from the differential mode component.

The present invention relates to impulse noise estimation and removal in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions, and particularly to transmissions in power line communications and digital subscriber line (DSL) transmissions. The method includes the steps of: modulating data to be transmitted; performing an inverse fast Fourier transform; inserting a cyclic prefix into the data; transmitting the data as a set of OFDM symbols via a channel; receiving the set of OFDM symbols; removing the cyclic prefix; performing a fast Fourier transform; estimating impulse noise; canceling the impulse noise based upon the estimated impulse noise to produce a set of impulse noise-free data; estimating the channel; and demodulating and detecting the data transmitted based upon the estimated channel and the set of impulse noise-free data.

The invention discloses a geographic information system (GIS) terminal cable fault on-line location method. The GIS terminal cable fault on-line location method comprises the steps of synchronously acquiring fault current travelling wave signals of three-phase sheaths at two ends of a GIS terminal cable, filtering white noise, pulse noise and high-frequency oscillation noise which are acquired in the fault current travelling wave signals, eliminating outer modulus interference signals and inner modulus interference signals in filtered fault current travelling wave signals, obtaining sampling point sequences corresponding to catastrophe points of the fault current travelling wave signals, identifying the fault current travelling wave signals and performing location according to identified results. The GIS terminal cable fault on-line location method has high applicability, reliability, practical applicability and automation level, and the accuracy of fault location can meet the requirement of underground power cable system fault location.

A method reduces noise in a multiple carrier modulated (MCM) signal. Such a method may include: estimating impulse noise based in the equalized signal; and removing a portion of the noise in the equalized signal as a function of the estimated impulse noise. An apparatus reduces noise in the MCM. Such an apparatus may include: a down-converter; an analog to digital converter to digitize the output of the down-converter; a guard-interval removing unit operable upon the digitized output of the down-converter; and a combined FFT, equalization and impulse-noise-compensation unit operable upon a signal from the guard-interval-removing unit.

The invention provides a timing synchronization method and a timing synchronization system for power line carrier communication. The system comprises an analog-to-digital converter, an I/O (Input/Output) demodulator, a narrowband interference detector, an adaptive filter, a normalization module, an auto-correlation calculation module, a comparator and a postprocessor, wherein an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) carrier signal is converted into an OFDM carrier frequency domain signal by the analog-to-digital converter, the I/O demodulator and the narrowband interference detector. The method comprises the following steps: 1, acquiring average power P of each OFDM subcarrier f; 2, performing narrowband interference detection on the OFDM subcarrier f; 3, filtering the OFDM signal and then performing normalization processing; 4, acquiring start time of the OFDM carrier signal and outputting an OFDM carrier synchronization signal. Compared with the prior art, the timing synchronization method and the timing synchronization system for power line carrier communication have the advantage of higher robustness under various different channel environments of narrowband interference, pulse noise, multi-path propagation and violent change or nonlinear input signal amplitude.