Transmission system and wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10404267-B2
Application number	US-201716095722-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2017
Priority date	Apr 25, 2016
Publication date	Sep 3, 2019
Grant date	Sep 3, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a transmission system including: a signal processing apparatus 2 configured to transmit, via a signal cable 4 , a delta-sigma modulated signal obtained by performing delta-sigma modulation on a transmission signal that is an RF signal; and a wireless apparatus 3 configured to transmit, via the signal cable 4 , a reception signal that is an RF signal. The signal processing apparatus 2 transmits the delta-sigma modulated signal to the wireless apparatus 3 , and the wireless apparatus 3 transmits the reception signal to the signal processing apparatus 2 . In the delta-sigma modulated signal, quantization noise is suppressed at the frequency of the reception signal. The reception signal is transmitted to the signal processing apparatus 2 while the delta-sigma modulated signal is being transmitted to the wireless apparatus 3.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transmission system comprising:
a first apparatus configured to transmit, via a signal transmission path, a delta-sigma modulated signal obtained by performing delta-sigma modulation on a first signal that is an RF signal; and
a second apparatus configured to transmit, via the signal transmission path, a second signal that is an RF signal, wherein
the first apparatus transmits the delta-sigma modulated signal to the second apparatus,
the second apparatus transmits the second signal to the first apparatus,
in the delta-sigma modulated signal, quantization noise is suppressed at a frequency of the second signal, and
the second signal is transmitted to the first apparatus while the delta-sigma modulated signal is being transmitted to the second apparatus.

2. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first apparatus includes a delta-sigma modulator configured to perform delta-sigma modulation on the first signal, and
the delta-sigma modulator has a characteristic to stop quantization noise in a frequency band including a frequency of the first signal and the frequency of the second signal.

3. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first apparatus includes a delta-sigma modulator configured to perform delta-sigma modulation on the first signal, and
the delta-sigma modulator has a characteristic to stop quantization noise in a first frequency band including a frequency of the first signal, and stop quantization noise in a second frequency band including a frequency of the second signal.

4. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first apparatus includes a delta-sigma modulator configured to perform delta-sigma modulation on the first signal, and a band elimination filter to which an output from the delta-sigma modulator is provided and which has a signal elimination band including a frequency of the second signal, and
an output from the band elimination filter is transmitted as the delta-sigma modulated signal to the second apparatus.

5. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the second signal is a reception signal received by a reception device configured to receive a radio signal.

6. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the second signal is a feedback signal of a transmission signal that is wirelessly transmitted by a transmission device configured to transmit a radio signal.

7. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the first apparatus includes:
a processing unit configured to process the second signal; and
a bandpass filter connected between the processing unit and the signal transmission path, and having a signal pass band including a frequency of the second signal.

8. The transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the second apparatus includes a binarizer configured to binarize the delta-sigma modulated signal provided through the signal transmission path.

9. A wireless communication system including the transmission system according to claim 1 and configured to wirelessly transmit the first signal, wherein
the second apparatus includes a plurality of reception units configured to receive the delta-sigma modulated signal, and
the plurality of reception units include:
a plurality of wireless transmission units, respectively, configured to wirelessly transmit RF signals obtained from the delta-sigma modulated signal; and
a control unit configured to adjust timings of the delta-sigma modulated signal in the plurality of wireless transmission units, thereby adjusting transmission timings of the first signal to be wirelessly transmitted from the respective wireless transmission units.

10. The wireless communication system according to claim 9 , wherein a plurality of signal transmission paths configured to connect the plurality of reception units to the first apparatus form a multicore wire having the plurality of signal transmission paths as a core wire.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Maehata Takashi

Classifications

• H03M3/466

  Multiplexed conversion systems · CPC title

• H03M3/402

  Arrangements specific to bandpass modulators · CPC title

• H04B1/44 Primary

  Transmit/receive switching · CPC title

• H04B1/0475

  with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion (H04B1/0483 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03M3/32

  with special provisions or arrangements for power saving, e.g. by allowing a sleep mode, using lower supply voltage for downstream stages, using multiple clock domains, by selectively turning on stages when needed · CPC title