Patents by Inventor Umberto Mengali

Umberto Mengali 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).

  • Patent number: 4121165
    Abstract: A digital demodulator of data signals transmitted by linear amplitude modulation of a carrier, sampled under the control of clock pulses CK1, comprises an interpolating unit UIN including a tapped delay line TDL whose outputs carry, at a given instant, respective signal samples received during different clock cycles. These signal samples are fed to a transversal filter FIN also receiving two sets of interpolation coefficients a.sub.k, b.sub.k read out from respective memory sections ME1, ME2. The signal samples from the several delay-line taps are multiplied in filter FIN by the two sets of coefficients a.sub.k and b.sub.k, under the control of a pulse train CK2 and another pulse train CK3 of the same cadence but phase-shifted with reference to the former, and the two sets of resulting products are respectively summed in a digital adder SM and alternately read out to a phase corrector CJ recovering the phase coherence of the demodulated baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: CSELT - Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.
    Inventors: Renato Dogliotti, Umberto Mazzei, Umberto Mengali
  • Patent number: 4048572
    Abstract: Digital signals asymmetrically modulated upon a carrier, with suppressed or vestigial second sideband, are recovered at a receiver by pseudo-coherent demodulation or periodic sampling and subsequent digitization to provide a train of raw data signals X from which a train of raw quadrature signals Y is derived by digital filtration. Signals X and Y are fed to a phase corrector where they are cross-multiplied with a sine function and a cosine function of a feedback signal W, approximating a corrective phase angle .phi.(t), to yield a corrected in-phase signal X' and a corrected quadrature signal Y'. Signal X' is quantized to provide a reference signal c which, upon subtraction from signal X', produces a bipolar difference signal whose sign bit is multiplied with either the entire signal Y' or its sign bit to provide an error signal V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: CSELT - Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni S.p.A.
    Inventors: Renato Dogliotti, Umberto Mazzei, Umberto Mengali