Keith M Lane

US Patent:

46776176, Jun 30, 1987

Filed:

Oct 4, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/784284

Inventors:

Roger J. O'Connor - Garden Grove CA
Keith A. Lane - Huntington Beach CA

Assignee:

Hughes Aircraft Company - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

H04J 306
H04B 1500
H04K 100

US Classification:

370100

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for synchronizing the operation of frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication devices in a network. One device (the "NTU") is deemed to be keeping the network time, to which the other devices must synchronize in order to communicate over the network. In a broadcast mode of the method an unsynchronized unit (a "RTU") operates in an idle state to receive on a discrete set of receive frequencies. The total communication time period is divided into intervals, and a unique synchronization code is generated for each time interval which defines the idle state frequencies and time information transmit frequencies to be employed in accordance with the method. The time kept by the RTU is assumed to within a predetermined number of time interval of the present network time interval. In a broadcast mode the NTU transmits sequences of synchronization messages, each sequence including a message transmitted at a receive frequency for each of the past, present and future time intervals necessary to cover the time uncertainty time. This sequence is transmitted at a transmit hop rate substantially higher than the RTU receive hop rate, so that all possible receive frequencies and synchronization codes are bracketed by the transmission sequence.

US Patent:

53655923, Nov 15, 1994

Filed:

Jul 19, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/555114

Inventors:

Robert W. Horner - Whittier CA
Kheim V. Cai - Brea CA
Ronald L. Bergen - Irvine CA
Keith A. Lane - Huntington Beach CA

Assignee:

Hughes Aircraft Company - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G10L 500

US Classification:

381 46

Abstract:

A waveform characterizer apparatus is disclosed for extracting cepstrum pitch and spectral properties of a waveform signal such as the baseband audio output of a receiver. The apparatus employs Fourier processing, cepstral processing, magnitude detection, logarithms processing, frequency selective filtering and time/frequency windowing to extract cepstrum pitch and spectral rolloff characteristics which can then be used to determine the signal type. One application of the invention is in a digital voice/squelch apparatus.