Patent ID: 7869493

Claim:
A method for detecting a signal received via a communication channel, the communication channel being affected by noise, wherein: the received signal is grouped into a plurality of blocks and is processed according to a filtering step which corresponds to the multiplication of a block of the received signal with a filtering matrix, wherein the filtering matrix corresponds to a product of matrices, where one of the matrices is a channel coefficient matrix that comprises components which are terms of channel coefficients that specify the transmission characteristics of the chanel; the filtering step comprises multiplication of at least one component of the received signal with a filter coefficient; and the filter coefficient comprises a noise variance offset which corresponds to the variance of the noise; wherein at least one of the components of the channel coefficient matrix is a term of a channel coefficient and the variance of the noise; wherein at least one of the components of the channel coefficient matrix is the conjugate of a channel coefficient divided by the sum of the square of the absolute value of the channel coefficient and square of the noise variance.