Patent ID: 7529310

Claim:
An apparatus for estimating a channel from a transmitting point to a receiving point in an environment, in which at least two transmitting points spaced apart from each other are present, each transmitting point having associated therewith a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequences are different from each other, comprising: a provider for providing an input signal, the input signal including a superposition of signals from the transmitting points; a multiplier for providing a number of copies of the input signal, the number of copies being equal to the number of transmitting points; for each copy of the input signal, a transformer for transforming the copy or a signal derived from the copy to obtain a transformed signal, the transformer being operative to apply a transform algorithm, which is based on a Fourier transform; and for each transformed signal, an extractor for extracting a portion of the transformed signal, the portion of the transformed signal representing an estimated channel impulse response for the channel to be estimated, wherein each extractor is operative to receive a transformed signal only from an associated transformer.