US5889815A
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Spread spectrum communication receiver
Assignee: Sharp Corp
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Filing: 1997-03-06
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Granted: 1999-03-30
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Expires: 2017-03-06
Abstract
Abstract A spread spectrum communication receiver includes a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part. A channel combining part combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers. A control part controls the plurality of fingers on the basis of orthogonal channel allocation information and channel state information so that the fingers execute a RAKE process when the channel information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to one orthogonal channel at a transmitter and the fingers perform parallel demodulation processes then the channel information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to a plurality of orthogonal channels at the transmitter.
Inventors
- 👤 Naohiko Iwakiri
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 18:29
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/69; H04B1/707; H04B1/7073; H04B1/7075; H04B1/708; H04B1/7097; H04B1/711; H04B1/7115; H04B1/7117; H04B2201/00; H04B2201/69; H04B2201/707; H04B2201/70707; H04B2201/7071
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
119 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a symbol demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines respective demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; and a control part which controls the plurality of fingers on the basis of channel state information and orthogonal channel allocation information so that the fingers execute a RAKE process when the orthogonal channel allocation information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to one orthogonal channel at a transmitter and the fingers perform parallel demodulation processes when the orthogonal channel allocation information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to a plurality of orthogonal channels at the transmitter.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
119 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a symbol demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines respective demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; and a control part which controls the plurality of fingers on the basis of channel state information and orthogonal channel allocation information so that the fingers execute a RAKE process when the orthogonal channel allocation information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to one orthogonal channel at a transmitter and the fingers perform parallel demodulation processes when the orthogonal channel allocation information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to a plurality of orthogonal channels at the transmitter.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
58 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part controls the plurality of fingers so that the fingers simultaneously perform the RAKE process in addition to the parallel demodulation processes when the orthogonal channel allocation information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to a plurality of orthogonal channels at the transmitter.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
63 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part controls the plurality of fingers so that the orthogonal channels to be processed are dynamically allocated to the fingers on the basis of the orthogonal channel allocation information which indicates the number of orthogonal channels allocated at the transmitter and weighting for the orthogonal channels allocated at the transmitter.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
70 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 2, wherein the channel combiner combines the demodulated symbols of the fingers so that the demodulated symbols of the fingers obtained by the RAKE process are added to generate combined demodulated symbols, and the demodulated symbols of the fingers obtained by the parallel demodulation processes and the combined demodulated symbols obtained by the RAKE process are then combined in serial formation.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
61 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 4, wherein the channel combiner combines the demodulated symbols of the fingers so that the demodulated symbols of the fingers obtained by the RAKE process are adjusted on the basis of the channel state information so as to have an identical timing and are then added to generate the combined demodulated symbols.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
94 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 4, wherein: the plurality of fingers respectively have spreading code generators and orthogonal code generators; the spreading code generators respectively provided for despread parts of the fingers generate spreading codes with respective phase offsets dependent on the channel state information; and the orthogonal code generators respectively provided for the inverse-orthogonal conversion parts of the fingers generate a same orthogonal code as that allocated at the transmitter when the fingers perform the RAKE process and respective orthogonal codes when the fingers perform the parallel demodulation process.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
129 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; a memory which stores a despread signal obtained by despreading a signal propagated through a path having a greatest receive power level; and a control part which controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the despread signal is read from the memory and is applied to the plurality of fingers, which fingers perform parallel demodulation processes a plurality of times within a period of a spreading code applied to the despreader part, whereby all orthogonal channels allocated at a transmitter can be demodulated within the period of the spreading code.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
129 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; a memory which stores a despread signal obtained by despreading a signal propagated through a path having a greatest receive power level; and a control part which controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the despread signal is read from the memory and is applied to the plurality of fingers, which fingers perform parallel demodulation processes a plurality of times within a period of a spreading code applied to the despreader part, whereby all orthogonal channels allocated at a transmitter can be demodulated within the period of the spreading code.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
37 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control part controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the fingers simultaneously perform the parallel demodulation processes on mutually different orthogonal channels.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
58 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control part controls the memory so that the despread signal is repeatedly read from the memory a given number of times which enables all the orthogonal channels allocated at the transmitter to be demodulated within the period of the spreading code by the parallel demodulation processes.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
28 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein the number of orthogonal channels allocated at the transmitter is greater than the number of the fingers.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
123 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a memory which stores a received multipath signal; a plurality of fingers, coupled to said memory, each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; and a control part which controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the multipath signal is read from the memory and is applied to the plurality of fingers, which fingers perform a RAKE process a plurality of times within a period of a spreading code applied to the despreader part, whereby all orthogonal channels allocated at a transmitter can be demodulated by the RAKE process within the period of the spreading code.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
123 words
A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising: a memory which stores a received multipath signal; a plurality of fingers, coupled to said memory, each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part; a channel combining part which combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers; and a control part which controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the multipath signal is read from the memory and is applied to the plurality of fingers, which fingers perform a RAKE process a plurality of times within a period of a spreading code applied to the despreader part, whereby all orthogonal channels allocated at a transmitter can be demodulated by the RAKE process within the period of the spreading code.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
46 words
The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 11, wherein the control part controls the memory and the plurality of fingers so that the fingers perform the RAKE process on all the orthogonal channels allocated at the transmitter within the period of the spreading code.
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