Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spread-spectrum pilot signals in a communications transmitter
- Patent Title (中): 通信发射机中的扩频导频信号
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Application No.: US13737335Application Date: 2013-01-09
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Publication No.: US08498322B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Russell Clifford Smiley
- Applicant: Russell Clifford Smiley
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04B1/00
- IPC: H04B1/00

Abstract:
Interference-reducing circuits include a feed-forward circuit for subtracting all or part of a desired transmitter-signal component from a signal coupled from the power amplifier's output path. The error signal from this feed-forward circuit contains a replica of distortion in the power amplifier output. A cancellation loop adjusts the phase and/or amplitude of this error signal and combines this adjusted error signal with an interference-carrying signal, removing some of the undesired distortion. A spread-spectrum pilot signal is used in one or both loops, to provide a reference signal that can be monitored by an adjustment circuit, which measures the magnitude and/or phase of a spread-spectrum signal that is injected into the interference-carrying signal and, based on that measurement, adjusts the amplitude, phase, and/or delay of the cancellation signal that is added to the interference-carrying signal. This yields a reduced-interference signal in which undesired distortion is reduced.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130121381A1 SPREAD-SPECTRUM PILOT SIGNALS IN A COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTER Public/Granted day:2013-05-16
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