Abstract: The invention provides a pulse radar apparatus, and a control method thereof, that permits to readily downsize and to lower its cost and allows information on an object to be detected in high precision by removing an influence of noise when a gain of a variable gain amplifier is discontinuously changed corresponding to detected distance, with a simple configuration. A variable gain amplifier 135 configured to adjust a gain corresponding to a distance gate is used to be able to detect weak reflected wave from a distant object and to amplify a reflected wave from a short distance with a low gain. An offset noise from the variable gain amplifier 135 is prepared together with interference noise and self-mixing noise in advance as a replica signal of unwanted wave and the replica signal is removed from a baseband signal in detecting the object T.

Abstract: Provided is a pulse receiver capable of receiving a burst signal and decoding the burst signal with a bit error rate reduced to a target value or less by controlling a determination threshold such that decoding success rate is equal to or less than a predetermined value. A decode unit 140 decodes a pulse train 20 to information 30, counts the number of decoding successes for a predetermined time period and outputs the counted number (decoding success rate DR) to a control unit 150. The control unit 150 uses as a basis the decoding success rate DR communicated from the decode unit 140 to control the set value of reference voltage Vth used in the comparator 130.

Abstract: A judging and controlling part 110 comprises an operation mode judging unit 111, a pulse width selecting unit 112, and a band limiting width selecting unit 113, wherein the operation mode judging unit 111 receives a signal of a gear state from a predetermined controlling device in a vehicle, and then judges the operation mode thereof. Based on a result of the judgment at the operation mode judging unit 111, the pulse width selecting unit 112 and the band limiting width selecting unit 113 control a wide band impulse generating part 120 and a band width limiting part 150, respectively.

Abstract: A ranging and communication multifunction system including a transmission unit and a receiving unit, and integrates two functions of ranging and communication in which the transmission unit includes a transmission circuit, a carrier wave modification device, and a transmission antenna. The receiving unit includes a receiving circuit, a wave detector, a low noise amplifier, and a receiving antenna, and a data modulation performed in the transmission circuit uses a PPM system. Thus, the receiving circuit provides a ranging circuit and a communication separately, so that the demodulation processing of ranging and communication can be performed in parallel.

Abstract: A judging and controlling part 110 comprises an operation mode judging unit 111, a pulse width selecting unit 112, and a band limiting width selecting unit 113, wherein the operation mode judging unit 111 receives a signal of a gear state from a predetermined controlling device in a vehicle, and then judges the operation mode thereof. Based on a result of the judgment at the operation mode judging unit 111, the pulse width selecting unit 112 and the band limiting width selecting unit 113 control a wide band impulse generating part 120 and a band width limiting part 150, respectively.

Abstract: A ranging and communication multifunction system processable by integrating a ranging function and a communication function is provided. The ranging and communication multifunction system 1 of the present invention includes a transmission unit 2 and a receiving unit 3, and integrates two functions of ranging and communication. The transmission unit 2 includes a transmission circuit 4, a carrier wave modulation device 5, and a transmission antenna 6, and the receiving unit 3 includes a receiving circuit 7, a wave detector 8, a low noise amplifier (LNA) 9, and a receiving antenna 10. The data modulation performed in the transmission circuit 4 uses a PPM system. The receiving circuit 7 provides a ranging circuit 11 and a communication circuit 12 separately, so that the demodulation processing of ranging and communication can be performed in parallel.

Abstract: The burst oscillation device 20 includes the data generation part 21, the operation part 11, the signal selecting part 40 and the burst generation part 50. The generation part outputs the encoded data encoded based on data for communication. At the signal selecting part 40, the pulse release timing of predetermined repetition period is randomly delayed by the PPM and further delayed randomly by the minimal time by means of the PSK modulation, thereby realizing the decreasing of the peak value of the average power spectral density.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-channel transmission system suitable for a digital broadcasting system that broadcasts television programs of many channels. Specifically, a selected one of television programs of a plurality of channels is supplied to an AV adjusting device. At this time, the selected television program is supplied to a monitor to allow recognition of its adjustment state. Since video signals and audio signals of television programs supplied from respective program supplying companies and program producing companies have different characteristics, they need to be adjusted to have common characteristics. Adjusted television programs and unselected television programs are supplied to a multiplexing section via routers.

Abstract: A radar device transmits an electric wave whose band is spread by a PN code, receives a reflected wave of the electric wave from an object 10, detects correlation between a received signal and a PN code which is delayed, and thereby detects the object. A receiving part 18 connects three receiving antennas 16a.about.16c sequentially one by one, thereby to receive a reflected wave from an object. The three receiving antennas are arranged having their directions so staggered that their antenna beam patterns partly overlap with each other. A correlation detection circuit 19 detects such a slide width that a value of correlation between a received signal received by each of the antennas and the PN code exceeds a predetermined threshold. An operation part 12 obtains an azimuth of an object based on the detected slide width and beam pattern characteristics of the antennas.