Patent ID: 7561647

Claim:
A channel equalization and decoding device in a context of multi-channel reception comprising: a series of modules each including a decoder ( 20 ) with weighted outputs, a module of rank p=1 receives a string of samples emanating from a sensor and each module of rank p greater than 1 receives, on the one hand, said string of samples emanating from the sensor and delayed by a quantity equal to the processing time of the previous modules of rank 1 to p−1, and, on the other hand, the output of the previous module of rank 1 to p−1, wherein the module of rank 1 further receives at least one other string emanating from another sensor and the modules of rank p greater than 1 receive said at least one other string of samples emanating from the other sensor and delayed by a quantity equal to the processing time of the modules of rank 1 to p−1, the at least two strings of samples being different and a multi-channel equalizer to determine one and the same equalized string of samples by utilizing the at least two strings received as two unequalized different representations of a string of samples to be determined.