Abstract: The channel estimator includes a plurality of correlating sections configured to calculate a plurality of time correlation values between the signal and a plurality of known pattern signals having different code lengths, an analyzing section configured to output a control signal representing a selected period for extracting a preferable correlation output from the output from each of the plurality of correlating sections, and a delay profile generating section configured to output a delay profile obtained by adaptively selecting or combining parts of the outputs from the plurality of correlating sections based on the output from the analyzing section.

Abstract: A frequency error detecting circuit includes: an oscillator; a frequency converting unit for a received signal on the basis of the oscillation output and output the received signal; a time-to-frequency converting unit configured to convert the output of the frequency converting unit into a frequency domain signal; a frequency shift determining unit configured to determine presence or absence of a frequency shift between an output frequency of the frequency converting unit and a predetermined carrier frequency; and a control unit configured to repeat frequency conversion processing and time-to-frequency conversion processing while controlling an oscillation frequency of the oscillator on the basis of a determination result of the frequency shift determining unit and cause the output frequency of the frequency converting unit to converge on a predetermined value to thereby detect a frequency error between the frequency of the received signal and the predetermined carrier frequency.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a channel estimator includes a channel response estimation section configured to estimate a channel response by correlation processing between a received signal and a known pattern signal; a path power calculation section configured to measure power of each path within an output of the channel response estimation section; a noise power calculation section configured to measure noise power from the output of the channel response estimation section; a path determination section configured to determine paths to be preserved by using the path power outputted from the path power calculation section and the noise power outputted from the noise power calculation section; and a noise removal section configured to remove values in time domain excepting the paths determined at the path determination section, from the output of the channel response estimation section.

Abstract: The channel estimator includes a plurality of correlating sections configured to calculate a plurality of time correlation values between the signal and a plurality of known pattern signals having different code lengths, an analyzing section configured to output a control signal representing a selected period for extracting a preferable correlation output from the output from each of the plurality of correlating sections, and a delay profile generating section configured to output a delay profile obtained by adaptively selecting or combining parts of the outputs from the plurality of correlating sections based on the output from the analyzing section.

Abstract: A channel estimator includes: a delay time estimation section configured to estimate a delay time of a received signal; an FFT parameter determination section configured to determine an FFT window position and an FFT size according to the estimated delay time; a first and a second FFT sections configured to transform the received signal and a known pattern signal, respectively, to the frequency domain based on the FFT window position and the FFT size that are determined; a channel response calculation section configured to perform division processing to divide the output of the first FFT section by the output of the second FFT section; and an IFFT section configured to apply IFFT to the output of the channel response calculation section based on the determined FFT size, and the delay time estimation section estimates a delay time based on the output of the IFFT section.

Abstract: A frame number detecting device includes: a symbol counter that receives a received signal including frames each of which is formed of a predetermined number of symbols, and outputs a count value as a symbol number for each of the symbols by incrementing the count value by one every time one symbol is inputted, each of the frames including a frame synchronization signal including a part obtained by shifting a frame synchronization signal of a different frame on a symbol-by-symbol basis according to a predetermined rule; a sequence storage that stores a synchronization sequence based on at least one of the frame synchronization signals included in the received signal, and a pattern matching unit that performs pattern matching between the synchronization sequence stored in the sequence storage and the received signal.

Abstract: A frequency error detecting circuit includes: an oscillator; a frequency converting unit for a received signal on the basis of the oscillation output and output the received signal; a time-to-frequency converting unit configured to convert the output of the frequency converting unit into a frequency domain signal; a frequency shift determining unit configured to determine presence or absence of a frequency shift between an output frequency of the frequency converting unit and a predetermined carrier frequency; and a control unit configured to repeat frequency conversion processing and time-to-frequency conversion processing while controlling an oscillation frequency of the oscillator on the basis of a determination result of the frequency shift determining unit and cause the output frequency of the frequency converting unit to converge on a predetermined value to thereby detect a frequency error between the frequency of the received signal and the predetermined carrier frequency.

Abstract: An OFDM receiver apparatus mounted on a movable object for receiving an OFDM signal, includes a plurality of directional antennas which receive an OFDM signal, an estimator to estimate a center frequency of a spectrum of a Doppler component from one of the received signals or a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing the received signals, a shift quantity calculator to calculate a shift quantity from the estimated center frequency of the estimator and directivity information representing directivity directions of the directional antennas, a plurality of frequency shifters to subject the received signals to frequency shift according to the shift quantity to compensate for Doppler shift, a combining unit to diversity-combine frequency shifted signals of the frequency shifters, and a demodulator/decoder to demodulate and decode combining diversity signals of the combining unit.

Abstract: An OFDM demodulator that demodulates an OFDM signal includes an antenna that receives a signal including delayed signals, an estimation circuit that estimates the channel response of the received signal, and a control circuit that controls a length of a retention time interval based on the estimated channel response. The retention time interval includes a time period from the head of a delayed signal having a maximum delay time in the delayed signals to the tail of a preceding signal in the delayed signals based on the estimated channel response. The OFDM demodulator also includes a retention memory that retains a portion of the received signal corresponding to the retention time period, and a selection circuit that selects an OFDM symbol based on a calculation of a maximum likelihood that the retained received signal is equivalent to a signal replica based on the channel response.

Abstract: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing demodulation apparatus includes: antenna to receive signal including holding period including part of period ranging from leading portion of delayed wave of maximum-delay time to trailing portion of preceding wave, unit estimating channel response of signal received by antenna, unit holding, based on channel response, first-signal component contained in holding period, first-signal component including second-signal component which is contained in period of preset length which is included in holding period, unit acquiring filter-bank outputs by subjecting second-signal component to frequency conversion, unit generating replicas for each of filter-bank outputs, based on estimated-channel response, frequency response of each of filter-bank outputs, and candidates for modulation signal corresponding to subcarrier included in each of filter-bank outputs, unit selecting one of replicas which minimizes quantity corresponding to differences between components of each of filt

Abstract: There is disclosed a radio communication system in which a constitution of a base station and further a control station can be simplified. A radio communication system according to the present invention converts a received signal received by a plurality of antenna elements in a base station to a signal of different frequency band, and then conflates the converted signal in order to generate sub-carrier wave multiplex signal. The signal is converted to an optical signal, and then the optical signal is transmitted to a control station via an optical fiber. Or the control station performs weighting to phase of the transmitted signal transmitted from a plurality of antennas of a base station, and then performs frequency conversion to different frequency band, and then conflates the converted signal in order to generate the sub-carrier wave multiplex signal. The signal is converted to an optical signal, and then an optical signal is transmitted to the base station side via the optical fiber.

Abstract: A frequency synchronizing circuit includes a first raising unit configured to raise a received signal by a first power to obtain a first raised signal, a filter to suppress noise in the first raised signal to obtain a filtered signal, a second raising unit configured to raise the filtered signal by a second power to obtain a second raised signal, an estimating unit configured to estimate a frequency offset in the received signal based on the second raised signal to obtain an estimated value, and an offset-cancelling unit configured to cancel the estimated value from the received signal, to output an offset cancelled signal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a wireless receiving apparatus includes: an antenna that receives an OFDM signal having an OFDM symbol and a guard interval; a front end section that performs frequency conversion and synchronization on the received OFDM signal; an ISI canceller that extracts a delay profile and removes leakage of the guard interval into the OFDM symbol by the use of the delay profile; a converter that performs orthogonal conversion on the ISI removed OFDM signal; an equalization section that performs equalization processing on the converted OFDM signal; an outer decoder that decodes the equalized OFDM signal; and an inner decoder that corrects an error in an inner code of the decoded OFDM signal, wherein the equalization section performs re-equalization processing on the converted OFDM signal by using a signal output from the inner decoder as the reference signal.

Abstract: A received signal selector for a received signal, the received signal including a set of carriers, the received signal selector being configured for use with an antenna system including a plurality of antenna elements. The received signal selector includes a plurality of received signal inputs for receiving signals from the plurality of antenna elements, an interference detector for each of the received signals inputs, coupled to the received signal inputs to receive, from each input, a version of the received signal, and configured to provide an interference output for the set of carriers from each input, a selection controller configured to receive the interference output for each input and having a control output, and a selector coupled to the received signal inputs and responsive to the control output to select one or more of the versions of the received signal for output. The invention provides a simplified technique for mitigating the effects of co-channel interference and severe multipath distortion.

Abstract: A receiver comprising: an antenna which receives a radio signal including N possible symbols {c1(n), c2(n), cM?1(n), cM(n)}, an N correlation units which are provided corresponding to the N possible symbols, respectively, each correlation unit detecting the degree of correlation with the radio signal received by the antenna, and a symbol determination unit which determines the symbol included in the radio signal received by the antenna based on the degree of correlation detected by the N correlation units. The N correlation units detect the degree of correlation between the radio signal received by the antenna and the N possible symbols represented by M chips {?0c1(n),?0c2(n)+?1c1(n), . . . ,?0cM?1(n)+?1cM?2(n), ?0cM(n)+?1cM?1(n)}.

Abstract: A receiver comprising: an antenna which receives a radio signal including N possible symbols {c1(n), c2(n), . . . cM?1(n), cM(n)}, an N correlation units which are provided corresponding to the N possible symbols, respectively, each correlation unit detecting the degree of correlation with the radio signal received by the antenna, and a symbol determination unit which determines the symbol included in the radio signal received by the antenna based on the degree of correlation detected by the N correlation units. The N correlation units detect the degree of correlation between the radio signal received by the antenna and the N possible symbols represented by M chips {?0c1(n), ?0c2(n)+?1c1(n), . . . , ?0cM?1(n)+?1cM?2(n), ?0cM(n)+?1cM?1(n)}.

Abstract: Antenna techniques particularly for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications systems. A signal processing system determines weights for an adaptive antenna, the antenna including plural antenna elements each receiving a signal including plural subcarriers. The system includes plural inputs for receiving signals from the antenna elements, a time-to-frequency domain transformer for each input for transforming the signal from each input to a plurality of subcarrier signals, a first weight determiner coupled to the inputs, before the time-to-frequency domain transformer in the signal path, and configured to determine a first set of weights, one for each input, and a second weight determiner coupled to the first weight determiner and configured to determine, from the determination of the first set of weights, at least one second set of weights including a frequency-domain weight for a subcarrier signal derived from each of the inputs.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) transmission apparatus, including: a subcarrier modulator configured to perform subcarrier modulation on a data sequence to generate subcarrier modulated signals; an IFFT unit configured to perform IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) processing on the subcarrier modulated signals to generate a first OFDM symbol having a length corresponding to the number of FFT points at the IFFT processing; a symbol length shortener configured to obtain a part of the generated first OFDM symbol as a second OFDM symbol; and a transmitter configured to transmit the second OFDM symbol obtained to an other communication apparatus.

Abstract: A diversity receiver device includes N antennas to receive OFDM signals, N digital filters to filter the signals received by the N antennas in order to reduce delay spread, K (K?N) beamforming units configured to subject the filtered signals to a beamforming process by using combining weights, an eigen-decomposition unit configured to subject the filtered signals to eigen-decomposition to generate N eigenvalues, a weight setting unit configured to select K eigenvalues in descending order from the generated N eigenvalues in order to set eigenvectors corresponding to the K eigenvalues to the beamforming units as the combing weight, respectively, K FFT units configured to subject the output signals of the beamforming units to fast Fourier transformation to output FFT signals, and a diversity combining unit configured to combine the FFT signals.

Abstract: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing demodulation apparatus includes: antenna to receive signal including holding period including part of period ranging from leading portion of delayed wave of maximum-delay time to trailing portion of preceding wave, unit estimating channel response of signal received by antenna, unit holding, based on channel response, first-signal component contained in holding period, first-signal component including second-signal component which is contained in period of preset length which is included in holding period, unit acquiring filter-bank outputs by subjecting second-signal component to frequency conversion, unit generating replicas for each of filter-bank outputs, based on estimated-channel response, frequency response of each of filter-bank outputs, and candidates for modulation signal corresponding to subcarrier included in each of filter-bank outputs, unit selecting one of replicas which minimizes quantity corresponding to differences between components of each of filt