Patent ID: 8861745

Claim:
A method of compensating for noise in a receiver comprising a first receiver unit and a second receiver unit, the method comprising: receiving a first transmission at the first receiver unit, the first transmission having a first signal component and a first noise component; receiving a second transmission at the second receiver unit, the second transmission having a second signal component and a second noise component; determining whether the first noise component and the second noise component include incoherent noise; generating a control signal that indicates a probability of incoherent noise based on at least the incoherent noise determination for the first and second noise components; if it is determined that the first and second noise components include incoherent noise, processing the first and second transmissions in a first processing path, wherein the first processing path compensates for incoherent noise; and if it is determined that the first and second noise components include incoherent noise, processing the first and second transmissions in a second processing path based at least on the control signal, wherein the second processing path compensates for incoherent noise in the first transmission and the second transmission dependent on a smoothed control signal that is related to the control signal.