US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 17 for "Symbol judgement apparatus, symbol judgement method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,203, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Symbol judgement apparatus, symbol judgement method and program" was invented by Masanori Nakamura (Musashino, Japan), Shuto Yamamoto (Musashino, Japan), Hiroki Taniguchi (Musashino, Japan), Etsushi Yamazaki (Musashino, Japan) and Yoshiaki Kisaka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bit log-likelihood ratio generation unit generates a bit log-likelihood ratio of the reception symbol for each bit. The symbol selection unit selects a plurality of adjacent symbols of the reception symbol. A candidate sequence generation unit generates a plurality of candidate seq...