ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,498, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (Nagoya, Japan).
"Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and non-transitory storage medium storing signal processing program" was invented by Hiroyuki Igura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Matsumura (Aichi, Japan), Takeshi Nishiyama (Aichi, Japan) and Tomoyuki Tange (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing apparatus includes: an autocorrelation processing circuit configured to generate an autocorrelation symbol; a symbol replica generation circuit configured to generate a symbol replica; an individual likelihood valu...