Article: South Korean Inventors Develop Communication System Iterative Decoder Quantization Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 29 -- Beong-Jo Kim and Young-Hwan Lee, both of Songnam-shi, South Korea, and Min-Goo Kim of Suwon-shi, South Korea, have developed a communication system receiver.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "quantization method for an iterative decoder. In the quantization method, received signal levels are equally divided into predetermined intervals within a range 2.sup.n (n is a positive integer) times greater than the transmission signal level range of the transmitter, and the level of the input signal received in each period is quantized."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 6,876,709 on April 5, 2005.

The patent has ...

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