Abstract: An encryption/decryption device, system and method for providing secure communication over a communication channel. The encryption device includes a radio interface unit connected to a conventional radio, wherein the interface unit selectively couples a codec, signal processor and modem to the transmit and receive path during secure operation. The codec digitally encodes non-secure analog signals and places them in pulse code modulated format. The signal processor then compresses the pulse code modulated signals into voice coded and then digitally encrypted NRZ signals which are then input into the conventional radio for modulating a carrier frequency on an occupied bandwidth approved for 15 KHz to 25 KHz, or as little as 11.4 KHz, spaced channels. The modem can input the digitally encrypted signals using modified frequency modulation to place the modified digitally encrypted signals substantially within the voice passband of 300 Hz to 3200 Hz.

Abstract: A method of simultaneously transmitting first and second data signals by the technique of spectrum spreading by direct sequence, comprises using the first data signal to modulate a spreading code produced by a code generator from a code clock and using the second data signal to modulate the delay of the spreading code. Modulation of the spreading code delay comprises either modifying the delay of the code delivered by the code generator, or modifying the code clock frequency. Apparatus for carrying out this method is also described.

Abstract: For use in a spread spectrum communication system there is provided in an embodiment of the invention a spread spectrum transmitter which uses a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for generating a carrier signal wherein the frequency of the oscillator is controlled by the output of a correlation code generator and data generator coupled to a varactor in the oscillator. The use of a VCO eliminates the need for sidelobes associated with mixers. In another embodiment the separation of the output of the correlation code generator and data generator coupled to the varactor and the output of a phase detector coupled to the varactor simplifies tuning of the transmitter and in another embodiment the use of a high gain differential amplifier to couple the output of the correlation code generator and data generator to the varactor eliminates tuning the transmitter.

Abstract: On the transmitter side of a spread spectrum communication device according to the present invention, transmission date are converted into a plurality of parallel data sets by a serial-parallel convertor and spread-spectrum-modulation is effected by means of PN code generators and selectors. Different modulated outputs are delayed by delay devices, using a sounder channel and the phase thereof as a reference. The delayed outputs and the output of the sounder channel are added by an adder, multiplexed and transmitted.On the receiver side correlation of a received signal with a reference signal is formed by a correlator and a correlation pulse is obtained from the correlation output. Data are reproduced by means of a sounder detecting circuit, a sampling pulse generating circuit and an information detecting circuit.In this way data reproduction can be effected with a high efficiency by means of a single correlator.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for providing privacy on communications systems which include radio links, such as cellular telephone, marine radiotelephone, IMTS, and RDSS systems, in a manner which does not require a scrambler/descrambler at each called party location. The apparatus includes a base module having a call diverter connected to the public switched telephone network through two standard telephone lines. A bypass interface circuit is connected to the call diverter between the connections to the two telephone lines to selectively connect a scrambler/descrambler in series with the two telephone lines.In operation, a mobile telephone, such as a cellular telephone, places a call to the telephone number of the first telephone line to cause the call diverter to place the second line off-hook and supply a dial tone from the second line through the call diverter and the first line back to the cellular telephone.

Abstract: Encoding is realized by means of a first low-pass input filter (21), a first modulator (20), a second low-pass filter (19), a second modulator (18) whose modulating signal has a frequency which is pseudo-random modified in the course of time, which signal is pseudo-random chosen between two signals of different frequencies (45, 46) and an output filter (17). According to the invention a first generator providing two signals is constituted by two phase-locked loop oscillators each having a frequency divider (7, 9) in the loop and both being controlled by the same reference signal generator (3, 4) while the reference signal generator itself is constituted by an oscillator of the same type (3, 4) controlled by the field synchronizing signal of the television transmitter, and this signal as well as the reference signal are applied to a first pseudo-random generator (14) for controlling the instants of change of the modulation signal. Decoding is effected similarly in the reverse order.

Abstract: A privacy signal transmission system having a transmitter portion and a receiver portion. The transmitter portion digitizes an analog message signal and enciphers the digitized signal into a privacy signal before modulation and transmission to the receiver portion. The transmitter portion also extracts and modulates an analog error signal representative of the digitization error for transmission to the receiver portion. The receiver portion demodulates the digitized privacy signal and analog error signal, and after the privacy signal is deciphered and reconverted to an analog signal it is added to the received analog error to reconstitute the original analog message signal.

Abstract: A wireless transmitter for PM (phase modulation) signal with a spectrum scrambler for relocation of input spectrum for privacy purposes is comprised of a differential circuit coupled with an input terminal, a spectrum scrambler coupled with output of said differential circuit, and FM (frequency modulation) modulator coupled with output of the spectrum scrambler. Due to the position of the differential circuit before the spectrum scrambler, modulation index of modulated PM signal and/or the frequency band of the modulated PM signal does not increase irrespective of spectrum scrambling.

Abstract: Data signals are transmitted at a variable information rate with variable power so the transmitted information rate and transmitted power level increase and decrease together to simulate high frequency fading and enable the data transmission to be disguised. The information rate and power vary in response to a predictable noise-like function generator.

Abstract: A spread spectrum communication system having a correlation receiver for decoding an information signal transmitted on a pseudo-noise (PN) carrier. The receiver synchronizes to the transmitted signal by performing a continuous sequence of correlations until a correlation output exceeding a predetermined threshold level is detected. Thereafter, the receiver performs a plurality of correlations during a sampling interval which is timed to occur at approximately the time when high subsequent correlation output signals are likely to appear. After enhancement through adaptive filter processing, the correlation outputs generated during each sampling interval are accumulated (integrated and the summed output present at the end of the sampling interval is representative of the transmitted data message (a binary bit). The adaptive filter develops and stores weighting values representing the expected signal strength of the correlation outputs and the actual correlation outputs are multiplied by the weighting values.

Abstract: A spectrum inversion type voice scrambler for secret speech communication comprises a first spectrum inversion section, a second inversion section and an adder for summing the outputs of the first and second inversion sections. A random signal generator produces two random signals for controlling, respectively, the spectrum inversion in the two inversion sections. The first inversion section is comprised of a modulator section composed of a variable frequency signal generator response to a random signal, a mixer receiving an input signal and the output of the variable frequency generator. The second inversion section includes three modulator sections the first and third of which are composed of a fixed frequency generator, a mixer and a low pass filter. The second modulator section is composed of a variable frequency generator responsive to the second random signal, a mixer and a low pass filter.

Abstract: A communications system for conveying information angle-modulated onto a carrier includes a modulator which angle-modulates the data onto the carrier and which also randomly changes the phase of the carrier. Since the carrier phase is randomly changed, an unauthorized receiver or interceptor of the signal who frequency-multiplies the signal and integrates over a long period in order to reconstruct the carrier produces a carrier which has a broader bandwidth and relatively less amplitude than in the case in which the carrier phase is not randomly changed. The probability of intercept and demodulation by the unauthorized receiver is thereby reduced. The authorized receiver frequency-multiplies and integrates for the known frame interval to recover the carrier.