Automatic adjustment of receiver apparatus based on channel-bit-error-rate-affected parameter measurement

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PATENT NO 5463403
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08180574

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Alignment of an antenna and a polarizer for the antenna are automatically adjusted and the frequency setting of a frequency-tunable receiver is automatically adjusted while receiving a broadcast communication signal that is forward-error-correction coded by processing the forward-error-correction code of the received signal to measure a channel-bit-error-rate-affected parameter for the received signal; by realigning the antenna and the polarizer from their respective initial positions in response to the measured parameter until the measured parameter is minimized; and by retuning the receiver from its initial frequency setting in response to the measured parameter until the measured parameter is minimized. A Viterbi decoder processes the forward-error-correction code of the received signal to compute path metrics affected by the bit-error rate of the received signal and normalizes the computed path metrics; and a counter counts the normalizations over fixed intervals to measure a path metric normalization rate as the measured parameter.

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GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION (GIC-4)101 TOURNAMENT DRIVE HORSHAM PA 19044

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Moroney, Paul Olivenhain, CA 125 4574
Walker, Gordon K Escondido, CA 16 702

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