Abstract:
Device for improving the signal/noise ratio of a common signal received on three aerials utilizing correlation between the sum and difference values of combinations of the signals from the three aerials to eliminate or substantially suppress the noise received with the common signal.
Abstract:
A signal-to-noise ratio improving device for processing narrow frequency band signals received by two wave collectors (transducers or antennas) and respectively delivered at one and the other of two input terminals in the form of identical useful signals on each of which a different quasi-stationary noise is superposed. The device forms the sum and difference of the noiseaffected signals received at said input terminals and the said difference is processed in a circuit comprising amplitude regulating means, first and second correlators each having two inputs to one of which is fed the said sum and to the other of which are applied, for said first correlator, said amplituderegulated difference and, for said second correlator, the latter said difference delayed by a fixed time interval. The correlators deliver at their respective outputs signals proportional to the time average of the product of the signals applied to their two inputs. The averaged signals are respectively applied to a first input of each one of two multipliers, to a second input of which are respectively applied said amplitude-regulated difference and said delayed amplitude-regulated difference. The outputs of the multipliers deliver new signals which are applied to the inputs of an adder, and the output signal from said adder is applied to an input of a subtractor, to the other input of which said sum of noise-affected signals is applied. The output of the subtractor delivers the improved signal.