Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit that is configured to: perform a wireless communication in a first mode using a first frequency band serving as a first communication channel; and perform the wireless communication in a second mode using a second frequency band including the first communication channel and a second communication channel that is adjacent to the first communication channel; a detection unit that is configured to: monitor each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band; output a first detection signal when an interference signal is detected in the first frequency band; and output a second detection signal when the interference signal is detected in the second frequency band; and a determination unit that determines whether the interference signal is in the first communication channel or in the second communication channel based on the first and second detection signals.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit that is configured to: perform a wireless communication in a first mode using a first frequency band serving as a first communication channel; and perform the wireless communication in a second mode using a second frequency band including the first communication channel and a second communication channel that is adjacent to the first communication channel; a detection unit that is configured to: monitor each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band; output a first detection signal when an interference signal is detected in the first frequency band; and output a second detection signal when the interference signal is detected in the second frequency band; and a determination unit that determines whether the interference signal is in the first communication channel or in the second communication channel based on the first and second detection signals.

Abstract: A radio communication system includes one master station which performs transmission without being controlled by another radio station and which is configured to independently set a channel for use in a radio communication, and at least one slave station which belongs to the one master station and whose radio communication channel used and transmission/reception operations are controlled by the master station. When detecting an interference signal which disturbs the radio communication during operation, the one master station or the at least one slave station sets a first modulation scheme applied to the radio communication to the same second modulation scheme as a modulation scheme used in broadcast in order to convey information necessary for an evasive action to move to another radio communication channel.

Abstract: There is disclosed a notification method in a communication system of notifying specific multifunctionality information between terminal stations. An expansion code is generated from both a user input code and a function identification code corresponding to a specific function. A transmission frame including the expansion code is also generated and transmitted to at least one of the terminal stations.

Abstract: There is disclosed a notification method in a communication system of notifying specific multifunctionality information between terminal stations. An expansion code is generated from both a user input code and a function identification code corresponding to a specific function. A transmission frame including the expansion code is also generated and transmitted to at least one of the terminal stations.

Abstract: A diversity receiving apparatus for use in an OFDM transmission radio communication/broadcasting system where OFDM signals are received by a plurality of antennas and input into a plurality of receivers. The OFDM received signals are further transformed into frequency spectra. Channel frequency responses are calculated by using OFDM received signal frequency spectra and a reference frequency spectrum generated in a reference spectrum generator. OFDM received signal frequency spectra distortions are compensated by using corresponding channel frequency responses. The transformed OFDM received signal frequency spectra are input into a selector unit as first input signals, while the distortion-compensated OFDM received signal frequency spectra are input into the selector unit as second input signals. The selector unit then selects a second input signal corresponding to a first input signal having maximum amplitude or maximum power.

Abstract: An analog signal processing circuit including: a frequency conversion unit for receiving a plurality of radio frequency signals having different center frequencies or a plurality of radio frequency signals having the same center frequencies but different amplitude-characteristics or phase-characteristics and converting the frequencies of the signals; a frequency selection unit for selecting a signal output from the frequency conversion unit at a predetermined band width; and an addition unit for adding a plurality of signals output from the frequency selection unit is provided.

Abstract: A retransmission control apparatus for use in a radio communication system that uses an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique, the apparatus comprising a transmitter which transmits to a radio station a data sequence, which serves as communication data that has been transformed into a time waveform of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol; a receiver which receives from the radio station a retransmission request for retransmitting the communication data; a transformation mechanism configured to transform, in response to the retransmission request, the data sequence of the communication data to be retransmitted into an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol having a time waveform different from the time waveform of the orthogonal division multiplexing symbol which had been sent before the retransmission request; and a retransmitting mechanism configured to retransmit the communication data transformed by the transformation mechanism to the radio station.

Abstract: A library is referred to and thus facilities are executed when executing an application program for receiving and transmitting radio signals. That is, the library serving as programs depending on hardware converts commands based on the application program into signal to control the hardware. As a result, the application program is describable by a program independent of an analog device for receiving and transmitting the radio signal, and a common application program can be used even in case of different hardware.

Abstract: The disclosed communication node has a function for recognizing one communication node on the first network as one of constituent elements in own communication node, and a function for disclosing an own configuration information regarding the constituent elements as recognized above, to another communication node on the second network. Also, the disclosed communication terminal has a function for disclosing functions in the own communication terminal as Sub Units in an AV/C (Audio/Visual Control) protocol executed on an IEEE 1394 bus, and a function for receiving at least a part of information regarding Sub Units existing in the communication node on the second network with which it is communicating.

Abstract: A library is referred to and thus facilities are executed when executing an application program for receiving and transmitting radio signals. That is, the library serving as programs depending on hardware converts commands based on the application program into signal to control the hardware. As a result, the application program is describable by a program independent of an analog device for receiving and transmitting the radio signal, and a common application program can be used even in case of different hardware.

Abstract: A library is referred to and thus facilities are executed when executing an application program for receiving and transmitting radio signals. That is, the library serving as programs depending on hardware converts commands based on the application program into signal to control the hardware. As a result, the application program is describable by a program independent of an analog device for receiving and transmitting the radio signal, and a common application program can be used even in case of different hardware.

Abstract: There is disclosed a notification method in a communication system of notifying specific multifunctionality information between terminal stations. An expansion code is generated from both a user input code and a function identification code corresponding to a specific function. A transmission frame including the expansion code is also generated and transmitted to at least one of the terminal stations.

Abstract: A diversity receiving apparatus for use in an OFDM transmission radio communication/broadcasting system where OFDM signals are received by a plurality of antennas and input into a plurality of receivers. The OFDM received signals are further transformed into frequency spectra. Channel frequency responses are calculated by using OFDM received signal frequency spectra and a reference frequency spectrum generated in a reference spectrum generator. OFDM received signal frequency spectra distortions are compensated by using corresponding channel frequency responses. The transformed OFDM received signal frequency spectra are input into a selector unit as first input signals, while the distortion-compensated OFDM received signal frequency spectra are input into the selector unit as second input signals. The selector unit then selects a second input signal corresponding to a first input signal having maximum amplitude or maximum power.

Abstract: A communication priority is set for each information providing site connected to the Internet. A database in which the degrees of communication priority for the individual sites are organized in table form is provided in a network. When an user makes a request for connection to any site, the database is searched for the communication priority for the site. Then, according to the retrieved degree of connection site, the connection state of the communication channel between the user and the information providing site is controlled.

Abstract: A retransmission control apparatus for use in a radio communication system that uses an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique, the apparatus comprising a transmitter which transmits to a radio station a data sequence, which serves as communication data that has been transformed into a time waveform of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol; a receiver which receives from the radio station a retransmission request for retransmitting the communication data; a transformation mechanism configured to transform, in response to the retransmission request, the data sequence of the communication data to be retransmitted into an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol having a time waveform different from the time waveform of the orthogonal division multiplexing symbol which had been sent before the retransmission request; and a retransmitting mechanism configured to retransmit the communication data transformed by the transformation mechanism to the radio station.

Abstract: In a diversity receiving apparatus for use in an OFDM transmission radio communication/broadcasting system, OFDM signals are received by a plurality of antennas and are input into a plurality of receivers. The OFDM received signals are further input into a plurality of transformers and are transformed into frequency spectra. A plurality of channel frequency response calculating units calculate channel frequency responses by using the OFDM received signal frequency spectra and a reference frequency spectrum generated in a reference frequency spectrum generator. A plurality of distortion compensators then compensate for the distortions of the OFDM received signal frequency spectra by using the corresponding channel frequency responses. The OFDM received signal frequency spectra output from the first transformers are input into a selector unit as first input signals, while the distortion-compensated OFDM received signal frequency spectra are input into the selector unit as second input signals.

Abstract: Correspondingly to transmission channel frequency responses calculated at each of a plurality of receiving parts respectively, frequency spectrum signals, which are obtained by transforming frequency of received orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals, are given weighting, and frequency spectrum signals for each are combined. With these steps, not only estimation of distortion in the amplitude direction and in the phase direction becomes more accurate, but also reproduction of frequency spectrum signals and digital signal sequence becomes more precise so as to realize combined diversity reception.

Abstract: A large amount of user information is transmitted with good efficiency by means of a high-speed downlink by making transmission rates of an uplink circuit and a downlink asymmetrical. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality of terminals, an uplink established between each of the base stations and each of the terminals for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed information from a terminal to a base station, and a downlink circuit established between each of the terminals and each of the base station for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed data from a base station to a terminal.

Abstract: A large amount of user information is transmitted with good efficiency by means of a high-speed downlink by making transmission rates of an uplink circuit and a downlink asymmetrical. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality of terminals, an uplink established between each of the base stations and each of the terminals for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed information from a terminal to a base station, and a downlink circuit established between each of the terminals and each of the base station for the purpose of radio transmission of prescribed data from a base station to a terminal.