Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a mobile communication terminal permitting a user to obtain location information of wireless base station which provides contents data in certain areas. The terminal accumulates identification information of wireless base stations when wireless services are received. The invention has functions of interrelating the identification information with location information of the terminal when the services are received and of storing both kinds of information. Wireless LAN service areas are displayed together with map information.

Abstract: In a radio communication apparatus, delay profiles of a desired wave and delay waves thereof are estimated by plural delay profile estimation sections for each of received signals from directional antennas constituting an array antenna. Received signals from the antennas selected by a reception antenna selector on the basis of the delay profile are subjected to a temporal/spatial equalization processing by an adaptive signal processing section and a path diversity combining section, thereby obtaining a reception output. An arrival angle range of the desired wave is estimated by a DOA estimation section from the delay profile estimated by the delay profile estimation section. Based on the arrival angle range, the antenna for transmission is selected by a transmission antenna selection section, and transmission signals are sent out.

Abstract: A wireless control apparatus which performs a wireless communication with a plurality of wireless terminals, comprising: an evaluation signal receiver configured to receive evaluation signals relating to received signals in the respective wireless terminals, which are transmitted from the plurality of wireless terminals; a supplement signal deciding unit which decides a supplement signal necessary to supplement the received signals in the plurality of wireless terminals; and a supplement signal transmitter configured to transmit the supplement signal decided by the supplement signal deciding unit, to the plurality of wireless terminals.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is constituted by first, second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements and a connection element. The sum of the lengths of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements is ½ the wavelength corresponding to a parallel-resonance frequency of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the first and third wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements. The parallel-resonance frequency is higher than the series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements and lower than the series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements.

Abstract: A wireless transmitting apparatus according to the present invention, comprising: N (N is two or more integer) pieces of antennas capable of transmitting a wireless signal; and a selector which selects L (L is one or more integer, and L≦N) pieces of antennas from said N pieces of antennas and selects the types of signals to be transmitted from the selected L pieces of antennas.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is constituted by first, second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements and a connection element. The sum of the lengths of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements is ½ the wavelength corresponding to a parallel-resonance frequency of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the first and third wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements. The parallel-resonance frequency is higher than the series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements and lower than the series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication system, a wireless communication system, comprising: one or more wireless base station; and a plurality of wireless terminals capable of communicating with said wireless base station by wireless, two or more of said wireless terminals capable of communicating with each other by wireless thereby forming a wireless terminal group; wherein said wireless base station has a representative determination unit configured to determine at least one wireless terminal belonging to said wireless terminal group as a representative terminal; and said representative terminal receives first frames transmitted from other wireless terminals belonging to said wireless terminal group, and transmits the received first frames to said wireless base station.

Abstract: A wireless communication system which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising: a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first control signal, said first wireless apparatus group forming a first ad-hoc network between said transmitting apparatuses; and a second wireless apparatus group having a plurality of destination apparatuses, each receiving the wireless signal transmitted from said first wireless apparatus group, said second wireless apparatus group transmitting and receiving the wireless signal received by said destination apparatuses based on a second control signal, and said second wireless apparatus group forming a second ad-hoc network between said destination apparatuses different from said first ad-hoc network.

Abstract: One of objects of a wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention is to realize stable communication regardless of received signal strength indication and information amount.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent congestion of networks and to effectively use a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is constituted by first, second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements and a connection element. The sum of the lengths of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements is ½ the wavelength corresponding to a parallel-resonance frequency of the second, third, and fourth wire antenna elements. The sum of the lengths of the first and third wire antenna elements is ¼ the wavelength corresponding to a series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements. The parallel-resonance frequency is higher than the series-resonance frequency of the first, second, and fourth wire antenna elements and lower than the series-resonance frequency of the first and third wire antenna elements.

Abstract: This invention is a spread spectrum receive apparatus comprising a plurality of receive branches, wherein each of the plurality of receive branches includes at least one antenna which receives a plurality of different polarized components, and a RAKE receiver, commonly prepared for the plurality of receive branches, for modulating the plurality of different polarized components received, and outputting a modulated signal based on the plurality of different polarized components modulated.

Abstract: The following are provided a plurality of antennas provided- correspondingly to a plurality of radio communication systems, a plurality of processing circuits whose one ends are connected to the antennas to apply processings including amplification and frequency conversion to signals received from a corresponding antenna input to the above one ends or signals to be transmitted to a corresponding antenna input to the other ends of the circuits, an input/ output terminal which outputs a reception signal to an external unit or inputs a transmission signal from the external unit, and a unit connected between the processing circuits and the input/output terminal to couple reception signals output from the processing circuits or distribute transmission signals input from the input/output terminal to the processing circuits.

Abstract: In an adaptive array antenna, the phase-shifted amount of one of a plurality of phase shifters is changed to a value obtained by increasing a currently set phase-shifted amount by a predetermined angle, and then, to a value obtained by decreasing the currently set phase-shifted amount by a predetermined angle. The variation in strength of a received signal combined at this time is detected by a signal strength detector, and a partial differential coefficient of a performance function with respect to the phase-shifted amount is derived using only the detected variation in strength of the received signal. Thus, the phase control based on the partial differential coefficient of the performance function with respect to the phase-shifted amount is carried out with a simple circuit construction without the need of signals of each antenna element.

Abstract: A method for estimating an arrival direction of an electromagnetic wave by the BS-MUSIC, by inputting into one receiver arrival wave reception signals received by a plurality of antenna elements constituting an array antenna. At first, a wide range is scanned in a plurality of directions with a wide antenna beam and a first estimation of arrival direction is carried out. Next, a plurality of directions are scanned with a narrow antenna beam to cover only the directions obtained as a result of the first estimation of arrival direction. Thus, a second estimation of arrival direction is carried out. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a method of estimating an arrival direction by using a small number of receivers in a small apparatus at low cost. Further, based on this method, it is also possible to estimate an arrival direction in a small calculation volume even under the unknown environment of waves.

Abstract: In a radio communication apparatus, delay profiles of a desired wave and delay waves thereof are estimated by plural delay profile estimation sections for each of received signals from directional antennas constituting an array antenna. Received signals from the antennas selected by a reception antenna selector on the basis of the delay profile are subjected to a temporal/spatial equalization processing by an adaptive signal processing section and a path diversity combining section, thereby obtaining a reception output. An arrival angle range of the desired wave is estimated by a DOA estimation section from the delay profile estimated by the delay profile estimation section. Based on the arrival angle range, the antenna for transmission is selected by a transmission antenna selection section, and transmission signals are sent out.

Abstract: The present invention is a distributed antenna system comprising a plurality of antennas arranged in a distributed manner such that individual service areas partly overlap one another, and a centralized controller for controlling the plurality of antennas, wherein the centralized controller comprises a selection circuit for selecting at least one of the plurality of antennas and a beam forming circuit for forming at least one beam by setting desired excitation conditions for the at least one of the plurality of antennas selected.

Abstract: This is a radio communication system having a radio base station controller 20 which is connected to a plurality of base stations 10n−1, 10n and 10n+1, and then assigns a fixed channel to each of radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c, and further controls the beam patterns of the radio base stations 10n−1, 10n and 10n+1, and accordingly carries out the radio communications with the radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c. The radio base station controller 20, when transmitting to and receiving from the different radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c to which the same channel is assigned, controls the beam patterns so that the channels do not interfere with each other.

Abstract: An active array antenna system comprises a plurality of element antennas and radio frequency circuits connected to the element antennas. The radio frequency circuits comprises first frequency converters provided to correspond to the element antenna and converts the frequency between a carrier-wave frequency and a first intermediate-frequency by using a carrier-wave frequency band local signal, second frequency converters provided to correspond to the element antenna and converts the frequency between the first intermediate-frequency signal and a second intermediate-frequency which is lower than the first intermediate frequency by using an intermediate-frequency band local signal, and a variable phase shifter circuit for individually controlling the phases of the intermediate-frequency local signals which are supplied to the second frequency converters.

Abstract: An array antenna is formed of a plurality of antenna elements, each of which scans a beam in the direction of an angle &thgr; to a boresight of the antenna and electrically varies the direction of a rotation angle &phgr; of the beam. The antenna elements are disposed so that the optical path difference of radio waves transmitted or received by two adjacent antenna elements in the directions of a plurality of direction angles &phgr; on the plane tilted for an angle &thgr; to the boresight of the antenna is nearly a multiple of the wave length of the radio waves.