Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and methods for efficient digitization in a communication network
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Application No.: US17008009Application Date: 2020-08-31
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Publication No.: US11323180B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Zhensheng Jia , Luis Alberto Campos , Curtis Dean Knittle , Jing Wang
- Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
- Applicant Address: US CO Louisville
- Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
- Current Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Louisville
- Agency: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Main IPC: H04B10/69
- IPC: H04B10/69 ; H04B10/2507 ; H04B10/54 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
An analog signal processor includes a sampling unit configured to (i) filter, in the frequency domain, a received time domain analog signal into a low-frequency end of a corresponding frequency spectrum, (ii) sample the filtered analog signal at a frequency substantially higher than the low-frequency end, and (iii) spread quantization noise over an expanded Nyquist zone of the corresponding frequency spectrum. The processor further includes a noise shaping unit configured to shape the spread quantization noise out of the low-frequency end of the corresponding frequency spectrum such that the filtered analog signal and the shaped quantization noise are substantially separated in the frequency domain, and a quantization unit configured to apply delta-sigma modulation to the filtered analog signal using at least one quantization bit, and output a digitized bit stream that substantially follows the amplitude of the received time domain analog signal.
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