Patent ID: 9203499
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of receiving a wireless communication from first and second space diverse antennas, the method comprising: estimating channel characteristics of communication channels between said first and second space diverse antennas and a receiver and supplying said estimated channel characteristics to a combiner and a detector; receiving at the receiver signals corresponding to a block of symbols that has been transmitted from said first and second space diverse antennas, the transmitted block of symbols including a first symbol, a second symbol, a complex conjugate of said first symbol, and a negative complex conjugate of the second symbol, wherein the first symbol and the complex conjugate of the first symbol are in respective signals received at different times and the second symbol and the negative complex conjugate of the second symbol are received in the respective signals at different times; supplying the received signals to the combiner and outputting estimates of transmitted symbols to the detector; and detecting in said detector the transmitted first and second symbols using said estimates and said estimated channel characteristics.