Abstract:
A watermark signal provider comprises a time-frequency-domain waveform provider to provide time-domain waveforms for a plurality of frequency subbands. The time-frequency-domain waveform provider is configured to map a given value of a time-frequency-domain representation onto a bit shaping function, a temporal extension of which is longer than a bit interval, such that there is a temporal overlap between bit shaped functions provided for temporally subsequent values of the time-frequency-domain representation of the same frequency subband. A time-domain waveform of a given frequency subband contains a plurality of bit shaped functions provided for temporally subsequent values of the time-frequency-domain representation. The water mark signal provider further has a time-domain waveform combiner.
Abstract:
A terrestrial transmitting station for sending out a terrestrial broadcast signal includes a first receiver for receiving a signal to obtain a satellite receive signal, a second receiver for receiving a local signal to obtain a local receive signal and a signal combiner for combining the first receive signal with the local receive signal to form a combination signal. The signal combiner is implemented to generate the combination signal so that the combination signal is formed according to a hierarchical modulation, wherein the first receive signal is contained in a base layer of the hierarchical modulation and wherein the local receive signal is contained in an overlay layer of the hierarchical modulation. A terrestrial transmitting station further includes a transmitter for sending out the combination signal. A broadcast system includes a first transmitter and at least one terrestrial transmitting station. The information emitted from the satellite-based broadcast system may be received using an associated receiver. An inventive broadcast system allows adding a local information to a supraregionally emitted transmit signal in a frequency-efficient way.
Abstract:
In an apparatus for generating a transmit sequence comprising information from a plurality of information channels, a first means serves for generating a plurality of different candidate channel sequences from information of a first information channel of the plurality of information channels using a first code sequence associated with the first information channel, wherein each candidate channel sequence carries the same information as the information of the first information channel. A second means is provided to provide at least one candidate channel sequence for a second information channel from the plurality of information channels using a second code sequence associated with the second information channel and differing from the first code sequence. To receive an optimum transmit sequence resulting in a minimum out-of-band radiation combined sequences are examined, wherein each combined sequence may be obtained by a combination of at least one candidate channel sequence from each information channel. After this either the combined sequence is selected resulting in a minimum out-of-band radiation or the optimum candidate channel sequences are selected from the individual information channels, which together result in the optimum combined sequence causing a minimum out-of-band radiation. Therefore it is possible to reduce peak values e.g. occurring in the code multiplex modulation concept in the transmit sequence distortion-free.
Abstract:
In a method for the continuous real time tracking of the position of at least one mobile object in a defined multidimensional space, at least one mobile transmitter module is attached to at least one mobile object and the signals from the at least one module are received by a stationary receiving and signal processing network and then centrally processed. The signals emitted by each transmitter module are electromagnetic waves sent within a frequency band range using time division multiplexing techniques. Due to the fact that the frequency band is used as a single channel for the purpose of maximizing the accuracy with which a position is detected, and due also to the fact that the communication process between the transmitters and the receivers is based on the principle of pseudo-random time division multiplexing using burst transmissions of low cross correlation with non synchronized pseudo-random patterns, there is created a method for the continuous tracking of the position of one or more mobile objects at any time and in any place which is of very high positional resolution and has a temporal resolution of just a few milliseconds.
Abstract:
In an apparatus for generating a transmit sequence comprising information from a plurality of information channels, a first means serves for generating a plurality of different candidate channel sequences from information of a first information channel of the plurality of information channels using a first code sequence associated with the first information channel, wherein each candidate channel sequence carries the same information as the information of the first information channel. A second means is provided to provide at least one candidate channel sequence for a second information channel from the plurality of information channels using a second code sequence associated with the second information channel and differing from the first code sequence. To receive an optimum transmit sequence resulting in a minimum out-of-band radiation combined sequences are examined, wherein each combined sequence may be obtained by a combination of at least one candidate channel sequence from each information channel. After this either the combined sequence is selected resulting in a minimum out-of-band radiation or the optimum candidate channel sequences are selected from the individual information channels, which together result in the optimum combined sequence causing a minimum out-of-band radiation. Therefore it is possible to reduce peak values e.g. occurring in the code multiplex modulation concept in the transmit sequence distortion-free.
Abstract:
A watermark generator for providing a watermark signal in dependence on binary message data includes an information processor configured to provide, in dependence on information units of the binary message data, a first time-frequency domain representation, values of which represent the binary message data. The watermark generator also includes a differential encoder configured to derive a second time-frequency domain representation from the first time-frequency-domain representation, such that the second time-frequency-domain representation includes a plurality of values, wherein a difference between two values of the second time-frequency-domain representation represents a corresponding value of the first time-frequency-domain representation, in order to obtain a differential encoding of the values of the first time-frequency-domain representation. The watermark generator also includes a watermark signal provider configured to provide the watermark signal on the basis of the second time-frequency-domain representation.
Abstract:
A watermark decoder includes a time-frequency-domain representation provider, a memory unit, a synchronization determiner and a watermark extractor. The time-frequency-domain representation provider provides a frequency-domain representation of the watermarked signal for a plurality of time blocks. The memory unit stores the frequency-domain representation of the watermarked signal for a plurality of time blocks. Further, the synchronization determiner identifies an alignment time block based on the frequency-domain representation of the watermarked signal of a plurality of time blocks. The watermark extractor provides binary message data based on stored frequency-domain representations of the watermarked signal of time blocks temporally preceding the identified alignment time block considering a distance to the identified alignment time block.
Abstract:
A device for determining a correlation value from a correlation between a first sequence of values with complex values and a second sequence of values with complex values has a correlation means for determining a first partial correlation value from a correlation between a first subset of the first sequence of values and a first subset of the second sequence of values, and for determining a second partial correlation value from a correlation between a second subset of the first sequence of values and a second subset of the second sequence of values. The device further has a processing means for determining a processed partial correlation value with an adjusted phase term from the first partial correlation value or the second partial correlation value, and a calculating means for determining the correlation value using the processed partial correlation value.
Abstract:
In a transmitting/receiving concept a redundancy-adding encoder with a code rate larger or equal 0.5 is used in order to obtain two data streams for two different transmitters which are arranged at spatially different positions. Both transmitters transmit in the same frequency band. In the receiver, the receiving signal is sampled by a first sampler synchronous to the first transmitter and is output by a second sampler synchronous to the second transmitter in order to obtain a first and a second receiving signal which are fed to a trellis decoder in order to obtain a decoded first and second receiving subgroup of code units which are again fed to a calculating means in order to calculate the interference signals which are then combined with the corresponding receiving signals for an interference reduction. The iterative concept enables an interference reduction for receiving signal generated by two spatially separated transmitters which are transmitting in the same frequency band, however. The receiver concept shows a quick convergence and thus enables the two transmitters to transmit in the same frequency band, which results in a reduction of the required bandwidth by half compared to a corresponding transmitter concept in which the first and the second transmitters transmit at different frequencies.
Abstract:
A watermark generator for providing a watermark signal in dependence on binary message data includes an information processor configured to provide, in dependence on a single message bit of the binary message data, a 2-dimensional spread information representing the message bit in the form of a set of time-frequency-domain values. The watermark generator also includes a watermark signal provider configured to provide the watermark signal on the basis of the 2-dimensional spread information.A watermark detector, methods and computer programs are also described.