Spread spectrum communication device

Claim 1

In a spread spectrum communication circuit in which transmitted signals obtained by spreading the spectrum of information signals by means of a pseudo-noise code cycle are received and desired information signals are restored by inputting the signals thus received and another pseudo-noise code produced by a local pseudo-noise code generator into a correlator in the form of a surface acoustic wave convolver on the receiving side, the improvement wherein said pseudo-noise code generator for generating said pseudo-noise code comprises: a plurality of shift register stages connected in series to form a chain having an output end; means for advancing the contents of all but the last of said stages to the next stage of said chain and towards said output end; shift register selecting means, in which the output of each of said plurality of stages of the shift registers is inputted and including means for selectively outputting from among any of said plurality shift register outputs; means for inputting the output of said shift register selecting means into said convolver; means for setting the initial value of said shift register in the pseudo-noise code generator on the receiving side in a mirror image relation with respect to the initial value of the pseudo-noise code generator at the transmitter at the time of code synchronization; and feedback means for logically combining the inputs of selected shift register stages with the output of the last of said stages to modify the contents of the stages fed by said selected stages attendant to each advance so that by setting said selecting means to output the contents of said last stage a time-reversed image of an entire cycle of the transmitted pseudo-noise code will be sent to said convolver.