Patent ID: 7656941

Claim:
A method for synchronizing symbols at an output of a blind equalizer, the method comprising the steps of: on sending, inserting into a succession of sent symbols, one or more known synchronization sequences of symbols repeated at regular intervals in said succession of symbols; detecting said one or more known synchronization sequences in a succession of symbols at the output of said blind equalizer; deducing any shifting of the symbols in the succession of symbols at the output of the blind equalizer from the result of said detection; and retiming the symbols at the output of the blind equalizer, as a function of the deduced shift of the symbols, by eliminating symbols from or adding symbols to the succession of symbols at the output of the blind equalizer, between a synchronization sequence for which a shift is deduced and a preceding synchronization sequence, the number of symbols added or eliminated corresponding to the deduced shift of the symbols.