Patent ID: 8064550

Claim:
A method for removing quadrature imbalance errors in received data, the method comprising: accepting an unbiased training sequence in a quadrature demodulation receiver, the unbiased training sequence having a uniform accumulated power evenly distributed in a complex plane, and including predetermined reference signals (p) at frequency +f and predetermined mirror signals (p m ) at frequency −f; processing the unbiased training sequence, generating a sequence of processed symbols (y) at frequency +f, representing complex plane information in the unbiased training sequence; multiplying each processed symbol (y) by the mirror signal (p m ); and obtaining an unbiased quadrature imbalance estimate B m at frequency −f, wherein accepting the unbiased training sequence includes accepting a temporal sequence of n predetermined mirror signals (p nm ) and n predetermined reference signals (p n ); wherein generating the sequence of processed symbols (y) includes generating a temporal sequence of n processed symbols (y n ); and wherein obtaining the unbiased quadrature imbalance estimate (B nm ) includes: obtaining a sequence of n quadrature imbalance estimates; and averaging the n quadrature imbalance estimates.