Interference cancellation system for catv return transmissions

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H04N 5/21 (2006.01) H04N 7/10 (2006.01) H04N 7/173 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2176409

A CATV interference cancellation system reduces the presence of undesirable narrowband interference that corrupts return signal transmissions. The cancellation system first acquires a reference signal that contains components related to the interference present in the return signal. The reference signal is processed to derive estimates of the interference components appearing in the return signal and a cancellation signal is generated. The interference cancellation signal is then combined with the return signal, thereby reducing the interference components present in it. The interference cancellation system is deployed at a CATV headend and time division multiple access techniques (TDMA) are used for return transmission. The reference signal is derived from monitoring time slots within a TDMA frame that contain predetermined transmission data. Preferably the predetermined data is the absence of data resulting in an idle time slot. These time slots may be temporarily idle, or may deliberately be left unused to provide a window to a "noise- only" component of the return path signal. The signal thus obtained is passed through the same RF processing stage as the composite return signal and subsequently sampled and digitized. Thereafter, spectrum estimation techniques are applied to the samples of the signal to determine the frequencies of the interfering signals. Once an estimate of the interference frequencies is obtained from the spectrum, the reference signal comprising the same frequencies may be synthesized.

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