Method of signal generation and signal generating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9667333-B2
Application number	US-201414501780-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	Feb 18, 2011
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A signal generation method comprising:
power-changing each of a first baseband signal generated from first information and a second baseband signal generated from second information, the first information being different than the second information;
phase-changing the power changed first baseband signal; and
precoding the phase changed first baseband signal and the power changed second baseband signal according to a predetermined matrix F to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal for transmission on a same frequency band and at a same time, wherein
the phase of the first baseband signal is regularly changed according to a predetermined phase changing pattern using a phase change value sequentially selected from among N phase change value candidates, a difference between two adjacent phase change value candidates of the N phase change value candidates is 2π/N, N being an integer greater than the number of baseband signals and each of the N phase change value candidates being selected at least once within a predetermined period.

2. The signal generation method according to claim 1 , wherein
the power change is executed by multiplying the first baseband signal by u, and multiplying the second baseband signal by v, u and v denoting real numbers different from each other.

3. The signal generation method according to claim 1 , wherein the precoding satisfies the relation:
( z 1, z 2) T =F ( s 1, s 2) T
wherein z 1 and z 2 are signals after the precoding, and s 1 and s 2 are signals before the precoding.

4. A signal generation apparatus comprising:
a power changer power-changing each of a first baseband signal generated from first information and a second baseband signal generated from second information, the first information being different than the second information;
a phase changer phase-changing the power changed first baseband signal; and
a precoder precoding the phase changed first baseband signal and the power changed second baseband signal according to a predetermined matrix F to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal for transmission on a same frequency band and at a same time, wherein
the phase of the first baseband signal is regularly changed according to a predetermined phase changing pattern using a phase change value sequentially selected from among N phase change value candidates, a difference between two adjacent phase change value candidates of the N phase change value candidates is 2π/N, N being an integer greater than the number of baseband signals and each of the N phase change value candidates being selected at least once within a predetermined period.

5. A signal demodulation method for demodulating a reception signal obtained by receiving a plurality of transmission signals, the signal demodulation method comprising:
obtaining the reception signal, wherein
the transmission signals are generated by power-changing each of a first baseband signal generated from first information and a second baseband signal generated from second information, the first information being different than the second information, phase-changing the power changed first baseband signal, and precoding the phase changed first baseband signal and the power changed second baseband signal according to a predetermined matrix F to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal for transmission on a same frequency band and at a same time, and
the phase of the first baseband signal is regularly changed according to a predetermined phase changing pattern using a phase change value sequentially selected from among N phase change value candidates, a difference between two adjacent phase change value candidates of the N phase change value candidates is 2π/N, N being an integer greater than the number of baseband signals and each of the N phase change value candidates being selected at least once within a predetermined period; and
demodulating the reception signal in accordance with the sequentially selected phase change value.

6. A signal demodulation apparatus for demodulating a reception signal obtained by receiving a plurality of transmission signals, the signal demodulation apparatus comprising:
an obtainer obtaining the reception signal, wherein
the transmission signals are generated by power-changing each of a first baseband signal generated from first information and a second baseband signal generated from second information, the first information being different than the second information, phase-changing the power changed first baseband signal, and precoding the phase changed first baseband signal and the power changed second baseband signal according to a predetermined matrix F to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal for transmission on a same frequency band and at a same time, and
the phase of the first baseband signal is regularly changed according to a predetermined phase changing pattern using a phase change value sequentially selected from among N phase change value candidates, a difference between two adjacent phase change value candidates of the N phase change value candidates is 2π/N, N being an integer greater than the number of baseband signals and each of the N phase change value candidates being selected at least once within a predetermined period; and
a demodulator demodulating the reception signal in accordance with the sequentially selected phase change value.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America
• Sun Patent Trust

Inventors

• Murakami Yutaka
• Kimura Tomohiro
• Ouchi Mikihiro

Classifications

• H04B7/0842

  Weighted combining · CPC title

• H04L1/0048

  in conjunction with detection of multiuser or interfering signals, e.g. iteration between CDMA or MIMO detector and FEC decoder (for spatial equalizer H04L25/03286) · CPC title

• H04L5/12

  the signals being represented by different phase modulations of a single carrier · CPC title

• H04L27/20

  Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits · CPC title

• H04L1/0071

  Use of interleaving (interleaving per se H03M13/27) · CPC title