Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for processing signals of a digital transmission system in general, and for estimating the frequency offset of the transmission system in particular. In one embodiment, the method according to the invention estimates the pulse response of the transmission system and shortens the pulse response by means of a variable prefilter. The duration of the shortened pulse response is, in particular, shorter than the duration of a known symbol sequence which is transmitted twice identically within one method cycle. By comparing samples of the received signal which correspond to the known identical symbols, the frequency offset is estimated reliably, and suitable measures can be taken to compensate it. Consequently, the efficiency of the receiver is substantially improved with respect to the recovery of the transmitted data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for processing signals of a digital transmission system in general, and for estimating the frequency offset of the transmission system in particular. In one embodiment, the method according to the invention estimates the pulse response of the transmission system and shortens the pulse response by means of a variable prefilter. The duration of the shortened pulse response is, in particular, shorter than the duration of a known symbol sequence which is transmitted twice identically within one method cycle. By comparing samples of the received signal which correspond to the known identical symbols, the frequency offset is estimated reliably, and suitable measures can be taken to compensate it. Consequently, the efficiency of the receiver is substantially improved with respect to the recovery of the transmitted data.

Abstract: A radio receiver for an RF signal which is phase or frequency modulated by an information signal. The receiver has an analog receiving section which provides non-linear dynamic compression. The resulting analog signal is sampled and the samples are digitized by an A/D converter. The non-linear dynamic compression reduces the necessary number of quantizing steps in the A/D converter, which is less expensive, but thereby introduces non-linear distortion. To compensate such distortion, in the digital processing section of the receiver an expansion section is provided which processes the digital signal samples in accordance with the inverse of the non-linear dynamic compression characteristic. The resulting expanded digital sample values equalize the analog non-linear dynamic compression. The information signal is recovered from the expanded digital signals.