Patent ID: 7657228

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a receiver including: a signal reception path to filter and amplify a signal-of-interest from an incoming signal; an interference path, connected in parallel to said signal reception path, to identify an incoming interference signal from said incoming signal; a digital processing unit operatively connected to said signal reception path and said interference path, said digital processing unit including a characterizer unit and a noise canceller unit, wherein: said characterizer unit is to receive from said signal reception path said signal-of-interest and to receive from said interference path the identified interference signal, and based thereupon to estimate a non-linear mutual relation between: one or more characteristics of the incoming interference signal, and an estimated portion of noise level in the incoming signal-of-interest caused by the incoming interference signal; and said noise canceller unit is to reduce an effect of the interference signal on the signal-of-interest by applying a noise reduction algorithm based on said non-linear mutual relation.