Patents by Inventor Norikazu Kohara

Norikazu Kohara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9231804
    Abstract: A digital broadcast transmitting device and an exciter have an AGC function. In a level adjusting unit which receives an input of a baseband digital signal from a modulation processing unit, a comparator generates an error signal from a difference between a level signal obtained by digitizing a feedback signal from a power amplifier by A/D converter and a reference voltage generated by a reference generating unit, and an AGC multiplier/divider carries out digital multiplying/dividing coefficient to the baseband digital signal with or by a gain coefficient such that the error signal becomes 0. Thereby, AGC which controls transmission output from the power amplifier at a fixed level is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Norikazu Kohara
  • Publication number: 20150098525
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a digital broadcast transmitting device and an exciter have an AGC function. In a level adjusting unit which receives an input of a baseband digital signal from a modulation processing unit, a comparator generates an error signal from a difference between a level signal obtained by digitizing a feedback signal from a power amplifier by A/D converter and a reference voltage generated by a reference generating unit, and an AGC multiplier/divider carries out digital multiplying/dividing coefficient to the baseband digital signal with or by a gain coefficient such that the error signal becomes 0. Thereby, AGC which controls transmission output from the power amplifier at a fixed level is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Norikazu KOHARA
  • Patent number: 8102942
    Abstract: A vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation apparatus includes a signal processing unit which extracts an I-axis data signal component and a Q-axis data signal component from a baseband signal with symbol data superimposed thereon, a band-limiting filter which frequency-shifts the I-axis data signal component and the Q-axis data signal component, extracted by the signal processing unit, by only a specific frequency smaller than a rate of the symbol data and limits a passband width by a frequency width smaller than the rate of the symbol data, and a quadrature modulating unit which obtains a VSB modulation signal by quadrature-modulating the I-axis data signal component and the Q-axis data signal component output from the band-limiting filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norikazu Kohara, Seiichiro Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20080292018
    Abstract: A vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation apparatus includes a signal processing unit which extracts an I-axis data signal component and a Q-axis data signal component from a baseband signal with symbol data superimposed thereon, a band-limiting filter which frequency-shifts the I-axis data signal component and the Q-axis data signal component, extracted by the signal processing unit, by only a specific frequency smaller than a rate of the symbol data and limits a passband width by a frequency width smaller than the rate of the symbol data, and a quadrature modulating unit which obtains a VSB modulation signal by quadrature-modulating the I-axis data signal component and the Q-axis data signal component output from the band-limiting filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Norikazu Kohara, Seiichiro Horikawa