Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Gerstacker
Wolfgang Gerstacker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9184832Abstract: Concept for transmitting payload data from a transmitter to a receiver via a communication channel within a time interval, wherein channel-coded data packets are generated from the payload data, wherein each of the channel-coded data packets has packet core data corresponding to a packet identification of the respective channel-coded data packet, and wherein the packet core data is coded with a channel code of higher redundancy than the payload data. The channel-coded data packets are sent without any return channel to the receiver, which decodes packet core data of a first received channel-coded data packet of the time interval.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Andreas Tasch, Josef Bernhard, Wolfgang Koch, Patrick Nickel, Wolfgang Gerstacker
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Patent number: 7215726Abstract: A method for interference suppression for TDMA and/or FDMA transmission, which at least approximately can be described as pulse amplitude modulation, with an arbitrary number of receive antennas. The method comprises filtering of at least one complex-valued received signal ri[k] of one receive antenna with a filter with complex-valued coefficients fi[k] for generation of at least one output signal yi[k], forming at least one projection of at least one output signal yi[k] onto a vector pi which is assigned to this output signal yl [k], summing of a majority, especially all of the output signals yi[k] for forming a sum signal s[k], and feeding the sum signal s[k] into a device for detection, especially equalization. A system for interference suppression for TDMA and/or FDMA transmission is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Com-Research GmbHInventors: Raimund Meyer, Robert Schober, Wolfgang Gerstacker
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Publication number: 20050069066Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for estimation of the frequency offset in the digital transmission which is applicable for arbitrary linear modulations, dispersive channels, and general additive impairments. In a first step of the method N derivatives of the received signal are formed through discrete frequency shifts. Subsequently, these derivatives are preprocessed and equalized in an appropriate manner. On the basis of reliability information about the corresponding reconstructed symbol sequences, which is given in the form of metrics Mv which are obtained from internal variables of the equalizer (in case of hard-output equalization) or its output values (in case of soft-output equalization), an estimate of the frequency offset can be established by analysing them in connection with the N corresponding frequency shifts fv. Herein it is to be noted that the N equalizations do not necessarily have to equalize the entire received signal, but only part thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2002Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Raimud Meyer, Robert Schober, Wolfgang Gerstacker
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Patent number: 6519282Abstract: A method is described for digital transmission of information over copper lines wherein digital signals are precoded by a fixed precoder on a transmitter side and are recovered by blind equalization on a receiver side. The blind equalization is subdivided into an equalization of the magnitude and a subsequent equalization of the phase.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1998Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: AlcatelInventors: Johannes Huber, Robert Fischer, Wolfgang Gerstacker
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Publication number: 20020141437Abstract: A method for interference suppression for TDMA and/or FDMA transmission, which at least approximately can be described as pulse amplitude modulation, with an arbitrary number of receive antennas. The method comprises filtering of at least one complex-valued received signal ri[k] of one receive antenna with a filter with complex-valued coefficients fi[k] for generation of at least one output signal yi[k], 10 forming at least one projection of at least one output signal yi[k] onto a vector pi which is assigned to this output signal yi[k], summing of a majority, especially all of the output signals yi[k] for forming a sum signal s[k], and feeding the sum signal s[k] into a device for detection, especially equalization. A system for interference suppression for TDMA and/or FDMA transmission is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Raimund Meyer, Robert Schober, Wolfgang Gerstacker
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Patent number: 6345076Abstract: The invention relates to a receiver for a digital transmission system with an incoherent transmission method, which receiver includes an equalizer for forming estimates for a sequence of symbols a[k] transmitted by a transmission channel from received symbols r[k] by means of an impulse response h[k] that describes the transmission properties. For improving the receiving quality in an incoherent transmission method and transmission channels having intersymbol interference, it is proposed that the equalizer performs an incoherent maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) method to determine the estimates â[k] for the sequence of transmitted symbols a[k]. In channels having intersymbol interference, the incoherent MLSE method provides clearly better results than all the known incoherent receiving methods. As against frequency and phase offset, the incoherent MLSE method is considerably more robust than all the known coherent receiving methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1999Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: U.S. Phillips CorporationInventors: Jürgen Petersen, Robert Schober, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Johannes Huber
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Patent number: 6118816Abstract: The invention relates to a digital transmission system comprising a receiver, in which system a trellis-based estimation method (3) with a number of states reduced as a result of feedback (5) of at least one feedback value (.xi.) forms estimates (a) for a received signal (r) by means of an estimated impulse response (h) of a transmission system (1), a feedback value (.xi.) being determined from at least one estimate (a). With reduced-state estimation methods for the digital transmission, the problem consists of the additional noise components caused by the feedback of preliminary false symbol decisions. To achieve optimum estimates (a) for the received signal (r) despite a reduced number of states due to feedback, the receiver forms the feedback value (.xi.) from at least one intermediate value (a.sub.SDF). In digital transmission systems, the transmit symbols (a) and the estimates (a) have the values -1 or 1 in the receiver. In the receiver according to the invention, intermediate values (a.sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1997Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Raimund Meyer, Stefan Muller, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Johannes Huber
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Patent number: 6044111Abstract: The invention relates to a digital transmission system having a receiver which includes an equalizer for estimating transmitted binary symbols, from a sequence of sample values (6) of a received signal distorted by a transmission channel, by a reduced-state sequence estimation method or a reduced-state single symbol estimation method (11). To provide a receiver featuring high reliability combined with a clear state reduction of the estimation method, a minimum-phase substitute system (14) distorts the sample values received after received after a known training sequence (27) in the sequence of sample values (6)in the received order, and a maximum-phase substitute system (14) distorts the sample values (6) received before a known training sequence (27) and to be processed in reverse order for forming an estimate (11) for a received signal. The number coefficients of the impulse response which are reduced by the state reduction and used for the estimation, render the estimation inaccurate.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1997Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Raimund Meyer, Robert Fischer, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Johannes Huber, Peter Schramm
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Patent number: 6002716Abstract: A digital transmission system comprising a receiver, the receiver including a receiver input stage and a digital memory for storing a sequence of binary symbols of sample values, formed in the receiver input stage, of a signal distorted by a transmission channel, and an equalizer for forming a sequence of binary estimates from the sample values by an impulse response of a substitute system describing the transmission channel, the impulse response being determined by first correlations of coefficients of a known training sequence with the sample values of a part of the known training sequence extended by at least one binary symbol.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Raimund Meyer, Robert Fischer, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Johannes Huber, Peter Schramm