Multiband signal processing apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9814047-B2
Application number	US-201715429658-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2017
Priority date	Aug 11, 2014
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

The present invention discloses a multiband signal processing apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit and a multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel, where the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel includes a band-pass filter and a frequency mixer. The multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit is configured to generate a multi-tone local oscillator signal according to frequency response information of at least one device included in the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel; the band-pass filter is configured to filter the received multi-tone local oscillator signal to obtain a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal; and the frequency mixer is configured to perform frequency mixing on the multiband signal and the received multi-tone local oscillator signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multiband signal processing apparatus, comprising:
a multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel comprising a band-pass filter and a frequency mixer;
a multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit configured to:
generate a multi-tone local oscillator signal according to frequency response information of at least one device comprised in the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel, and
transmit the multi-tone local oscillator signal to the band-pass filter;

wherein the band-pass filter is configured to receive and filter the generated multi-tone local oscillator signal to generate a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal; and
wherein the frequency mixer is configured to frequency mix a multiband signal and the multi-tone local oscillator signal, in a preset area that comprises a location in which a non-zero spectral component of the multiband signal is located, the multi-tone local oscillator signal has a non-zero spectral component, and in at least one multiplied frequency of multiple contiguous multiplied frequencies of a fundamental frequency, the multi-tone local oscillator signal has no non-zero spectral component.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-tone local oscillator signal has no non-zero spectral component in a first location, and wherein distances between the first location and locations in which all non-zero spectral components of the multiband signal are located are all greater than a first threshold.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit is configured to:
generate the multi-tone local oscillator signal according to the frequency response information of the at least one device comprised in the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel, so that the multi-tone local oscillator signal has multiple non-zero spectral components which meet at least one of the following conditions: phases of the multiple non-zero spectral components are irrelevant, or a signal amplitude difference between any two spectral components of the multiple non-zero spectral components does not exceed a second threshold.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the band-pass filter is a tunable band-pass filter.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel further comprises, a memory and an analog-to-digital conversion unit;
the multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit is configured to transmit the generated multi-tone local oscillator signal to the memory;
the memory is configured to store, in a digital form, the multi-tone local oscillator signal generated by the multi-tone local oscillator signal generating unit;
the analog-to-digital conversion unit is configured to obtain the multi-tone local oscillator signal stored in the memory, convert the obtained multi-tone local oscillator signal in the digital form into a local oscillator signal in an analog form, and transmit the multi-tone local oscillator signal in the analog form to the band-pass filter; and
the band-pass filter is configured to filter the received multi-tone local oscillator signal in the analog form to obtain a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel further comprises an equalizer;
the band-pass filter is configured to transmit the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal to the equalizer;
the equalizer is configured to adjust, according to a preset adjustment criterion, a signal amplitude of the received multi-tone local oscillator signal that is filtered by the band-pass filter, to obtain a multi-tone local oscillator signal whose signal amplitude is adjusted; and transmit the multi-tone local oscillator signal whose signal amplitude is adjusted to the frequency mixer; and
the frequency mixer is configured to perform frequency mixing on the multiband signal and the received multi-tone local oscillator signal whose signal amplitude is adjusted.

7. A multiband signal processing method for use in a multiband signal processing apparatus having a multi-tone local oscillator transmission channel, the method comprising:
generating a multi-tone local oscillator signal according to frequency response information of at least one device comprised in the multi-tone local oscillator signal transmission channel;
filtering the multi-tone local oscillator signal according to a preset pass band condition to obtain a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal; and
performing frequency mixing on a multiband signal and the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal, wherein in a preset area that comprises a location in which a non-zero spectral component of the multiband signal is located, the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal has a non-zero spectral component, and in at least one multiplied frequency of multiple contiguous multiplied frequencies of a fundamental frequency, the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal has no non-zero spectral component.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal has no non-zero spectral component in a first location, and distances between the first location and locations in which all non-zero spectral components of the multiband signal are located are all greater than a first threshold.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal has multiple non-zero spectral components that meet at least one of the following conditions: phases of the multiple non-zero spectral components are irrelevant, or a signal amplitude difference between any two spectral components of the multiple non-zero spectral components does not exceed a second threshold.

10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein:
generating a multi-tone local oscillator signal comprises:
obtaining a multi-tone local oscillator signal stored in a memory;

before filtering the multi-tone local oscillator signal according to a preset pass band condition to obtain a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal, the method further comprises:
converting the obtained multi-tone local oscillator signal from a digital form into an analog form; and

filtering the multi-tone local oscillator signal in the analog form according to a preset pass band condition to obtain a filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal comprises:
filtering the multi-tone local oscillator signal in the analog form according to the preset pass band condition to obtain the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein:
before performing frequency mixing on the multiband signal and the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal, the method further comprises:
adjusting, according to a preset adjustment criterion, a signal amplitude of the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal to obtain a multi-tone local oscillator signal whose signal amplitude is adjusted; and

performing frequency mixing on the multiband signal and the filtered multi-tone local oscillator signal comprises:
performing frequency mixing on the multiband signal and the multi-tone local oscillator signal whose signal amplitude is adjusted.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kong Xiangming

Classifications

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