Wireless station and method of correcting frequency error

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11489656-B2
Application number	US-202117191879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2021
Priority date	Mar 26, 2020
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

A wireless station includes at least one oscillator to output a reference signal, and an error calculator to calculate a frequency of the reference signal and calculate a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal. The wireless station further includes a modulation data generator to generate modulation data by adding a correction value, varying in negative correlation with the frequency error calculated by the error calculator, to data to be transmitted, and a modulator to conduct frequency modulation on the basis of the modulation data and the reference signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless station comprising:
at least one oscillator to output a reference signal;
an error calculator to calculate a frequency of the reference signal, and calculate a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal;
a modulation data generator to acquire data to be transmitted, and generate modulation data by adding a correction value to the data to be transmitted, the correction value varying in negative correlation with the frequency error; and
a modulator to conduct frequency modulation on a basis of the modulation data and the reference signal, wherein
in a case where the frequency error calculated by the error calculator is a positive value, the modulation data generator generates the modulation data by adding a negative correlation value to the data to be transmitted, and
in a case where the frequency error calculated by the error calculator is a negative value, the modulation data generator generates the modulation data by adding a positive correlation value to the data to be transmitted.

2. The wireless station according to claim 1 , wherein the modulator comprises a voltage controlled oscillator into which the reference signal and the modulation data are input, the voltage controlled oscillator providing an oscillation frequency varying depending on the modulation data.

3. The wireless station according to claim 1 , wherein a median of the modulation data varies in negative correlation with the frequency error.

4. The wireless station according to claim 2 , wherein a median of the modulation data varies in negative correlation with the frequency error.

5. The wireless station according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one oscillator comprises a plurality of oscillators,
the wireless station further comprises a selector to select one of the oscillators, and
the error calculator calculates a frequency of a reference signal output from the oscillator selected by the selector, and calculates a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal, the reference signal being output from the oscillator selected by the selector.

6. The wireless station according to claim 2 , wherein
the at least one oscillator comprises a plurality of oscillators,
the wireless station further comprises a selector to select one of the oscillators, and
the error calculator calculates a frequency of a reference signal output from the oscillator selected by the selector, and calculates a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal, the reference signal being output from the oscillator selected by the selector.

7. The wireless station according to claim 3 , wherein
the at least one oscillator comprises a plurality of oscillators,
the wireless station further comprises a selector to select one of the oscillators, and
the error calculator calculates a frequency of a reference signal output from the oscillator selected by the selector, and calculates a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal, the reference signal being output from the oscillator selected by the selector.

8. The wireless station according to claim 4 , wherein
the at least one oscillator comprises a plurality of oscillators,
the wireless station further comprises a selector to select one of the oscillators, and
the error calculator calculates a frequency of a reference signal output from the oscillator selected by the selector, and calculates a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal, the reference signal being output from the oscillator selected by the selector.

9. The wireless station according to claim 1 , wherein the error calculator counts a number of periods of the reference signal within a constant period of a time signal, and calculates a frequency of the reference signal on basis of the number of periods counted within the constant period, the time signal being generated from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal.

10. The wireless station according to claim 2 , wherein the error calculator counts a number of periods of the reference signal within a constant period of a time signal, and calculates a frequency of the reference signal on basis of the number of periods counted within the constant period, the time signal being generated from a GNSS signal.

11. The wireless station according to claim 3 , wherein the error calculator counts a number of periods of the reference signal within a constant period of a time signal, and calculates a frequency of the reference signal on basis of the number of periods counted within the constant period, the time signal being generated from a GNSS signal.

12. The wireless station according to claim 4 , wherein the error calculator counts a number of periods of the reference signal within a constant period of a time signal, and calculates a frequency of the reference signal on basis of the number of periods counted within the constant period, the time signal being generated from a GNSS signal.

13. A method of correcting a frequency error comprising:
calculating a frequency of a reference signal output from at least one oscillator;
calculating a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal;
acquiring data to be transmitted;
generating modulation data by adding a correction value to the data to be transmitted, the correction value varying in negative correlation with the frequency error; and
conducting frequency modulation on a basis of the modulation data and the reference signal, wherein
in a case where the frequency error calculated is a positive value, generating the modulation data by adding a negative correlation value to the data to be transmitted, and
in a case where the frequency error calculated is a negative value, generating the modulation data by adding a positive correlation value to the data to be transmitted.

14. The wireless station according to claim 1 , wherein correction of the frequency error in the reference signal output from the oscillator is performed during operation.

Assignees

• Icom Inc

Inventors

• Tomita Takeo
• Akasaka masaki
• Ueno Yasuo

Classifications

• H04L7/0054

  Detection of the synchronisation error by features other than the received signal transition (by means of signal transition H04L7/033) · CPC title

• H03C3/0958

  applying frequency modulation by varying the characteristics of the voltage controlled oscillator · CPC title

• H03C3/0941

  applying frequency modulation at more than one point in the loop · CPC title

• H04L2027/0016

  Stabilisation of local oscillators · CPC title

• H04L7/0016 Primary

  correction of synchronization errors · CPC title