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Enhanced vsb viterbi decoder

CA 2527098 C · Owner: Lg Electronics Inc. · Inventors: Kang, Kyung Won; Choi, In Hwan

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An enhanced VSB receiver includes a tuner which tunes an RF signal and converts it into an IF signal an IF mixer which converts the IF signal into a baseband signal and a demodulator which demodulates the baseband signal signal into a VSB signal. The enhanced VSB receiver further includes a map recovery unit which recovers VSB map information of the VSB signal an enhanced equalizer for compensating channel distortion of the VSB signal and outputting an equalized symbol and an enhanced Viterbit decoder for estimating whether polarity inversion occurred during a symbol period of the equalized symbol and Viterbi-decoding the equalized symbol based on the polarity estimation.

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  • Filed November 15, 2005 and granted June 19, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 15, 2025.
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FiledNovember 15, 2005
GrantedJune 19, 2012
Term endedNovember 15, 2025
Patent numberCA 2527098 C
Classification (IPC)H04N5/44 +2 more

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