Signal constellations
CA 1307848 C · Owner: Motorola, Inc. · Inventors: Forney, George D. Jr.
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A Voronoi signal constellation includes those points of a coset of a lattice .DELTA. that lie within a Voronoi region of a sublattice .DELTA.' of .DELTA. where .DELTA.' is other than a scaled version of .DELTA.. The Voronoi signal constellation is combined with a coset code. A method of mapping data words to Voronoi constellation points is described.
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- Granted September 22, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 22, 2009.
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